Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs.
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I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.
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It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.
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There are co-ed schools in Saudi, but those are American or British. My dad, of course, believed in the good old CBSE Indian school system and thus, my younger brother Ishmeet and I were put in an all-boys CBSE school. My mother could move out only if she wore a burkha.
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The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.
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Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
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Bullying is something every kid in public, parochial, or private school has witnessed by graduation. While unfortunate, it is part of growing up.
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I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired to write something, I'll just write something really beautiful and mellow.
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For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.
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Honestly, I think it's kind of corny to sit and watch your own work.
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The war against terrorism is one we must win.
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Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
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I did not sell Amway, but I sold Shaklee, which was an Amway-type product sold through multi-level marketing.
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Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical.
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I always say snowboarding saved my life. It gave me a reason to focus on the future; it gave me something to be passionate about.
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Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.
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I believe that if writers want their readers to care about a character, they have to care themselves. I have to root for a detective who screws up as much as Thorne does, who shares my birthday, my North London stomping ground, and my love of country music, both alt and cheesy.
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I love making music, but I also love making music that's on the radio. In some circles, that is considered less artistic. And I've always tried to resist those people that say the two can't exist at the same time.
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In England, there is this tradition of the upper classes going to very expensive drama schools and then going on having careers. I knew that wasn't an option for me. My mother would never have been able to afford that.
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The euro has become a means by which superior German productivity is able to gain an absolutely unbeatable advantage over the whole eurozone territory.
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I moved around so much when I was younger that I sort of had to have this type of exterior; you know, I was afraid of getting hurt.
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My cat Isabella, she doesn't get along with anyone else. She's kind of like me: like, very anti-social and fierce. So we speak to each other on a spiritual level, and we cuddle every night. So it's pretty serious.
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I was actually going to law school in 1972.
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Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs.
