Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
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All religions have been made by men.
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There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.
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It used to be that you had to come to Silicon Valley, walk up Sand Hill Road, network with individuals. That's now being completely changed and turned on its head by the whole ICO thing.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I'm sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don't even know when you're being compromised till after the fact, and that's what you regret.
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Today in Saudi, women are either at the mercy of their husbands or at the mercy of judges who tend to side with the husbands. The only circumstance that a woman can ask for a divorce or a 'khali' is when her husband is in total agreement with her or if she comes from a very powerful family who decide to back her up.
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The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
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I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.
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You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a game where almost every shot is either an outside shot - a three-point shot - or a dunk.
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I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable. That's always been my mantra.
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The whole point of all of this - why we are here, why the world is here, and why we have the political system and leaders that we do - is to achieve change. This is the purpose of life.
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We see in the electroencephalogram a concomitant phenomenon of the continuous nerve processes which take place in the brain, exactly as the electrocardiogram represents a concomitant phenomenon of the contractions of the individual segments of the heart.
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The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.
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People don't teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it's something I'd never had to handle, because I'd been rejected for so long.
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I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.
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Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?
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Decent, hard-working Labour MPs have been targeted by Corbyn fanatics in an attempt to purge the party of anyone who doesn't support their narrow, divisive ideology.
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Should l go on playing bridge and dining, going in the same old monotonous circle? It's easy that way, but it's a sort of suicide, too.
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I don't have any style icons, but I get inspiration from my friends. My style motto is that it is better to be overdressed than underdressed.
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I really admire David Guetta; he's an unbelievable DJ and I love his style, his music and everything like that. So I look up to him.
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We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.
