Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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If you're a sponsor, and you're doing business globally, to bring your guests to South Florida is pretty nice.
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
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The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.
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One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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'When the root of your wrong is not from the heart, your wrong will make you to run to God the more.'
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The love, the echoes of long ago you needed the world to know They are in Xanadu The dream that came through a million years That lived on through all the tears, it came to Xanadu
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I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.
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A boatload of government money is indeed a gift. Unless, I suppose, you're one of the saps paying for the cargo.
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I kind of like not knowing how to do something - it's more exciting.
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I've played such good golf, and it was hard coming up and it wasn't easy in any matches or any shots. It means a lot. I think hopefully it will mean a lot to New Zealand because I'm the next winner of the U.S. Amateur after Danny Lee.
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I've got an overly developed sense of what selling out is, and I of course worry about it too much.
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I'm not interested in being famous. I'm interested in doing my job and doing it well, and that's wrestling, and that's what I love.
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I would have loved to do 'Alice in Wonderland.' Being a 'Bond' girl would always be fun. We had a lot of action in 'Eclipse' and I'd definitely like to continue down the action road. I want to do a romantic period piece, but those are really hard to get made because they're very expensive and there's not a huge demographic.
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Hats have been my thing pretty much my whole life but finance has not. I would go to the corner store and buy really cheap baseball style caps and wear those to school.
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Lift latch, step in, be welcome, Sir,Albeit to see you I’m unglad.
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To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.
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There are other planets besides the Earth and Mars. I'd like to remind you that studying Venus is vital to understanding life elsewhere.
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I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.
