Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
In the absence of good scientific data about the effects of artificial hallucinogens it's good to stick to the natural ones.
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Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
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I do not need a producer. I need only a good production manager. I need only a man who will give me money.
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
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It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.
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A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!
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You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't.
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I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.
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I can be a guy's guy and go to a game. But at the end of the night, I can still get dressed up for a date. There are a million different personalities that are part of me.
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Though it is perhaps expected for the bishop of Rome to warn against the idolatry of money, what is striking is how Francis suggests that not only God but also secular politics must outrank economic imperatives.
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I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then I have tried to walk a Christian life. And now that I'm getting older I realize that I'm walking even closer with my God.
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I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.
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If fake news that's being released by some foreign government is almost identical to reports that are being issued through partisan news venues, then it's not surprising that that foreign propaganda will have a greater effect, because it doesn't seem that far-fetched compared to some of the other stuff that folks are hearing from domestic propagandists.
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One night I came home. I figured, let my wife come on. I'll play it cool. Let her make the first move. She went to Florida.
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The waves have the habit of going forward and then flowing back.
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Materialism is in fact no protection. Those who seek it in that hope (they are not a negligible class) will be disappointed. The thing you fear is impossible. Well and good. Can you therefore cease to fear it? Not here and now. And what then? If you must see ghosts, it is better not to disbelieve in them.
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We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."
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Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?
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He couldn’t organize a fuck in a barrel full of whores.
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The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.
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It's hard to store natural gas. And it does require big storage tanks. So it doesn't work very well on passenger cars.
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In the absence of good scientific data about the effects of artificial hallucinogens it's good to stick to the natural ones.
