Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
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Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
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Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.
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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
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I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
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The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.
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I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.
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Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers.
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In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive Davis signed me to Arista.
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Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.
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If the public thought elevates you above the generality of men, let the other humble you, and hold you in a perfect equality with all mankind, for this is your natural condition.
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All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid.
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Vote, v. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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I will be a complete man, a complete athlete, with a fight with Roy Jones Jr.
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That's one thing I like to do before going in for a read - doing research once I actually have been granted the role - is to look up people's names.
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I always wanted to be the best and to get the most out of myself.
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I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.
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But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into a haze. Characters cannot come alive and fight and guide the world unless the novelist wants them to remain characters.
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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
