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.
Quotes to Explore
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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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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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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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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Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.
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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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Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
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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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Notice that much of what men do is also done by single mothers so appreciating what men do also helps us appreciate what single moms do.
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If we know there is enough money in there for nine or ten months, we won't worry too much. They can come back and get more-not all they want, but a large piece of it. So you always have the supplemental as a safety valve.
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Adversity is simply part of earth life. From it we can grow and progress if we choose to. Yes, some trials come because of our own disobedience, but many trials are simply part of life.
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America needs to rethink how we distribute our foreign aid around the world.
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I will teach people not only how to identify their goals and dreams, but subsequently give them the tools to make those dreams a reality.
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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
