Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.
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Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.
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So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.
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I'm doing what I wanted to do since I was a young girl. I pinch myself every day to make sure it's true.
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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.
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I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.
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If I'm going to compare myself to a candidate, it's Rick Scott. It's not Donald Trump.
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People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.
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All roads lead to another road for renegades, rebels, and rogues.
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I was definitely inspired by Madonna.
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When I finally make up my mind that I want to do something, it's never been hard for me to do.
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I talk openly about my past and what I've gone through - abuse being something that was very real in my household, and a lot of chaos growing up as a child. I think that I naturally just gravitated towards music that I could really feel on a deep level - and that meant sadness. I was able to connect with that at a really young age.
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the beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less
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Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.
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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
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Great teachers are usually a little crazy.
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I?m just trying to do a little more talking to the guys and assuring them I am with them regardless, mistakes or no mistakes. I feel like it is important to let your teammates know that they can make mistakes, because you are definitely gonna make them. We feel like we can make mistakes and live with them if they are aggressive mistakes. I just talk to my squad as much as I can and just try to be there for them because that is what they do for me.
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There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.
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I can do anything I want.
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“Pray firstly to be purified of passions, secondly to be freed from ignorance and forgetfulness, and thirdly to be delivered from all temptation and forsaking.”
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Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.
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Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.
