Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The same organizational principles which called us forth into self-reflection have called forth self-reflection out of the planet itself. And the problem then is for us to suspect this, act on our suspicion, and be good detectives, and track down the spirit in its lair. And this is what shamans are doing. They are hunters of spirit.Terence McKenna
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There are two kinds of ham: raw and cooked. Raw ham is cured with salt and/or smoke over time; cooked ham is boiled. Every culture that makes ham has its own unique and various methods.
Kate Christensen -
Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
Sam Kean -
The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
Nancy Allen -
No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
Fisher Ames -
The first time I heard Adam Feeney and Chester Stone Hansen's 'Vibez,' it was used in Drake's '0-100' as a sample.
Yuna -
I think free speech is probably the coolest thing we have in this country, and again, you can label it hate speech and dismiss it, and then you're allowed to censor it.
Dana Carvey
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
Harold Taylor -
But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
Dan Simmons -
The problem with listening to music today is that there's so much of it everywhere. We've got used to hearing music without actually listening to it.
Daniel Barenboim -
Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.
Zhang Yimou -
I think I always just want to get better at whatever I'm doing... Always strive for excellence.
Carl Hagelin -
I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden. Along with sunshine, there's got to be a little rain sometime.
Lynn Anderson
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If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.
A. Bartlett Giamatti -
I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.
Haile Gerima -
It was the same thing in the army, no respect. They gave me a uniform that glowed in the dark.
Jack Roy -
The Voice Chamber hatches a new and healthy experience of the vibrational universe
W. A. Mathieu -
There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.
Henry Ward Beecher -
The phases of fire are craving and satiety.
Heraclitus
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The compass of accurate knowledge directs the shortest, safest, cheapest course to any destination.
Claude C. Hopkins -
Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
Federica Montseny -
I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.
Cathy Freeman -
I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem.
Mira Sorvino -
The same organizational principles which called us forth into self-reflection have called forth self-reflection out of the planet itself. And the problem then is for us to suspect this, act on our suspicion, and be good detectives, and track down the spirit in its lair. And this is what shamans are doing. They are hunters of spirit.
Terence McKenna