Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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Money? I lost all taste for it.
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I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!
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I visited England immediately after I finished writing 'The Marrying Season,' before any editing or revisions.
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It is a fact that no man improves much after the age of 60 and after 65, most suffer a really alarming decline. I could give some examples, but at the advice of my publisher will refrain from doing so.
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Credit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a slump.
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We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.
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Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, … I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.
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Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
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'No I'm not no loser, I'll see you in Hell.'
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I've been told that I wasn't Latino enough, which was code for 'street' enough.
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I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back end. I grew up with a lot of players who had very, very tough lives after the ball started bouncing for them. And that's why I'm going to continue to fight.
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I think for larger-scale entrepreneurship, it's true - for men and women - that people who already have capital tend to do better.
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I was a teacher. I also worked at Harlem Children's Zone. I moved back to Baltimore and opened up an after-school, out-of-school program on the west side and then worked in two public school districts, in Baltimore and Minneapolis.
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When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.
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The man I lived with is a Christian, so I would talk to him about it. What would this person do in the Bible? What's the story around this person? Generally, when people talk about characters in the Bible, there's one thing they're known for, like Job.
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Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" Harry interrupted again. "So he can sneak up on people," said Ron. "Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking.
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What seems natural to us is probably just something familiar in a long tradition that has forgotten the unfamiliar source from which it arose. And yet this unfamiliar source once struck man as strange and caused him to think and to wonder.
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I let the streets talk to me. The streets speak to you - how you find out what's new, what people are wearing, what people aren't wearing.
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It's a little unsettling, to put a mud caulk on and then have nothing, but it doesn't look like it took away any of his foot.
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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.
