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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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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In spite of my own reservations about Bing's ability to convert Google users, I have to admit that the search engine does offer a genuine alternative to Google-style browsing, a more coherently organized selection of links, and a more advertiser-friendly environment through which to sell space and links.
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In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set in the past let me have fun researching patterns that were popular and fabrics and tools available to quilters through history.
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I moved to California not to pursue acting but to get out of Albuquerque.
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I think women have always been trying to look healthy. The makeup artists just teach you the quick cheats.
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You don't protect Mark McGwire. The only way to protect him is hit 70 homers yourself.
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There are many successful startup funders who are looking for ways to make a difference in the world.
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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
