Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has been all about.
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Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that people don't have contemplative time any more. I worry deeply about this. In fact, I worry about everything all the time. I used to be a punk. All I wanted to do was tear everything down, and that was so much easier.
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Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.
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We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
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I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'
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I can always go back to education.
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I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.
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I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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If you buy the Chromebook Plus and intend to use it mainly as a Chromebook, I expect you'll have a good experience. But if you plan to rely heavily on Android apps, you're basically buying into the start of a journey, replete with odd-looking presentations of familiar apps, bugs and crashes.
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I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
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Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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Refugees come to us seeking asylum, seeking freedom, justice and dignity - seeking a chance just to breathe. And people in our country are saying close the doors and don't let them in?
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.
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Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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I believe that we all have something to share with someone else that can better someone else's life.
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Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else.
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This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has been all about.
