Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The smart people who are straight are involved in simply the media management of what has turned into a slow apocalypse, spreading starvation, exacerbated class differences, toxified agriculture, so forth and so on. I don't believe the Establishment thinks there are solutions. Their policy is basically the management of panic, which is hardly a forward moving approach to the adventure of human civilization.
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I think I've gotten more confident because the more you do it and the more shows you play, you just feel more confident. You feel more confident about everything.
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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I like being unconventional.
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.
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Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, movies, museums, schools, etc.
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Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health care reform to government spending on education. It's not because the Republicans don't have a big enough Office of Hispanic Outreach.
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What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.
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I don't write women who are weak or simpering.
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I love doing stunts.
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We know we’ve come to a crossroads when German childhood is being held up as an idealized model for Americans.
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He was naming the groups that were pro-war. No one minds his naming the British or the Administration. But to name 'Jew' is un-American - even if it is done without hate or even criticism. Why?
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Everyone wants something that'll appeal to, like, 13-year-olds to 18-year-olds. Especially working in television and trying to pitch shows, they're like, 'We definitely want something that a 14-year-old will be, like, super-psyched about.' And I'm like, 'I don't know if my reality is appealing to a 14-year-old.'
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I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight.
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It's harder to get your second picture than it is to get your first one.
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Simon Cowell seems like a very nice guy, but I think he's a secondhand Mickie Most to be honest.
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I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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Tact is the great ability to see other people as they think you see them.
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The smart people who are straight are involved in simply the media management of what has turned into a slow apocalypse, spreading starvation, exacerbated class differences, toxified agriculture, so forth and so on. I don't believe the Establishment thinks there are solutions. Their policy is basically the management of panic, which is hardly a forward moving approach to the adventure of human civilization.
