Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
It was the fall into history that enslaved us to the labor cycle, to the agricultural cycle. And notice how fiendish it is.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
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If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
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You know yourself, once you've had the excitement of riding thoroughbreds, it's not very interesting riding anything else. But I still love horses; I just don't have one any more.
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Anxiety grew, the fear that always comes when an established pattern falters.
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I lived in a kind of dream of communism.
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I use only essential oils for perfumes.
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On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.
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Music is your own talent and is an important tool. Even if you don't want to be a role model, get ready to be in the public eye. Energy is there, you just have to use it.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
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There's so many things running through your mind. If you can formulate a game plan that works for you and allows you to block outside distractions and get to what matters, that's how the talent is able to come out.
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Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.
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Gary Smith, when I came to America, taught me a great deal about racing.
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I find my motivation from everyone who looks up to me and my teammates. From the little girls that look up to me and tell me they want to be like me when they grow up.
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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
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The first year was kind of hard for me. There was just too much attention, too much going on, and I really just wanted to focus on basketball.
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I think horror comedies tend to skew more comedy than horror, for the most part.
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Working with a green screen is so different than working with another human.
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It was the fall into history that enslaved us to the labor cycle, to the agricultural cycle. And notice how fiendish it is.
