Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
I have never felt that the primary use of these things was to cure what is called in modern parlance neurosis, what I call unhappiness. It isn't for that.
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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The first time I heard Adam Feeney and Chester Stone Hansen's 'Vibez,' it was used in Drake's '0-100' as a sample.
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I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.
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I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
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I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
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In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.
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I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.
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For me to be with someone, he's got to be fit. Or at least doing something he loves. Following your passion - whether it's hiking or sports or whatever - is super sexy.
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I was excited by the idea of playing a Nazi.
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I didn't get any crazy sponsors. I don't have any extra sponsors since I got the belt.
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I'm definitely neurotic. I don't cross streets and stuff.
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I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.
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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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Congress must seek and find answers when confronted with a situation that represents a possible betrayal of the public trust especially at a time when the people of the Gulf Region need every resource available to recover, ... ...I intend to exert my oversight power to determine how such flagrant abuse could happen and to ensure that Small Business Administration loans truly go to those who need them.
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A time will come when the eye of man will perceive colors as feelings within itself.
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The internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.
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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
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Perfection is a disease of a nation.
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I do hope that all nations can live in complete security and welfare.
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No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve modern man has evolved; the more civilization, the more repression, the more need there is for wit.".
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When one goes to see Modern Times, for instance, one understands much more about socialism than listening to the man who was then head of the Socialist movement in Italy.
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Proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself, a cold will hang on for a week.
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I have never felt that the primary use of these things was to cure what is called in modern parlance neurosis, what I call unhappiness. It isn't for that.
