Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools.
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.
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I think I've got some more big plays left in me.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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I know what it's like to have an inflated libido.
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I'm not questioning Dick Cheney's motives. There's a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point in time, he was opposed to going into Baghdad. Then he was out of office and involved in the defense industry, and then he became for going into Baghdad.
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.
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It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.
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I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldn't do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, 'Wow, they never told me no!'
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For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.
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We dare not supress thoughts, but when they are expressed through violence, like the idea that power comes from the barrel of a gun, they must be dealt with and met accordingly.
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I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase 'freedom of the Press' used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial Press is not free at all
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There's just something that's greater than the sum of its parts when we play together,
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Be content - Expansions, diffusions - content to be The unspotted imbecile revery, The heraldic center of the world Of blue, blue sleek with a hundred chins, The amorist Adjective aflame...
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A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world
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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
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I was in the main draw from the start, my opening match was on Court One against Jan Eric Lundquist of Sweden who was about eight in the world at the time.
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And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools.
