Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in all systems.
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I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.
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We're gonna get high, high, high, when we're low. The fires burn from better days. She scream why, oh why? I said I don't know!
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A friend had a couple of pairs made up for me, ... I think the album is coming out.
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I'll come back to New York. I think I'll start focusing in more on the entertainment business. I have been doing some of that already, all kinds of monkey business. But I'm all over the place, literally.
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Class Day is a terrible name for a day when you don't have to go to any class.
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Leadership isn't just legislation, that it's a matter of persuading people and giving them confidence, and bringing them together and setting a tone.
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When trying to explain anything, I usually find that the Bible, that great collection of magnificent and varied poetry, has said it before in the best possible way.
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The horrible thing about Death of princess Diana - the sacrificial lamb, which she was. And I believe, in a sense, John Kennedy, Jr. was the same thing. These are people that we loved so much that we drove them berserk with all the attention and they basically didn't have any particular stellar talents. They were just in some kind of a position somewhere where we fixed on them and they became, literally, sacrificial lambs
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It's really confusing, but I loved the fact that it just made me think.
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Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
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The university is a series of individual entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance about parking.
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Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
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Football is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place, and to play the game, and these are the best of training for any game of life.
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Over the past 10 years of being famous, my relationship with the camera has not been a pleasant one.
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I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.
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The less experienced a doctor is, the higher are his notions of professional dignity . . .
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One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.
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We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in all systems.
