Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The psychedelic sets you at the beginning of the path, and then people do all kinds of things with it.
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I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
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This is kind of weird, but I eat lemons with salt as snack. They're so good!
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It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby. It struck me that I'd lost my path in life and I felt frustrated. That's when I started to write.
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
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I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.
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I've never had anything done on my face. I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing.
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It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.
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I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
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When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.
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I don't think people understand the model-minority stereotype is negative. You are boxed in. You have to untangle that to find your own path.
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There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.
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I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
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How you deal with adversity says a lot about the kind of players you've got and the kind of team we've got.
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Whenever some kind of mass shooting or any other kind of violent activity takes place, we kind of hold our breath until we are sure that no Muslim was involved, because we know that these incidents will be treated differently if a Muslim is involved versus if somebody of another background is involved.
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I kind of make music where and when I can, and I guess that's why I collaborate so much.
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As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things.
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I love Lee Ann Womack and John Prine. That's kind of my ideal cross point. If I can sing it like Lee Ann would and say it like John would, then I feel like I've gotten somewhere.
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I`'ll make it official. I care about Don Draper and what happens to him and I'm not the only one who does.
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Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.
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Say what you want about it, Hell is story-friendly... The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of narrative. Not so the pleasures of Paradise. Paradise is not a story. It's about what happens when the stories are over.
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I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.
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The psychedelic sets you at the beginning of the path, and then people do all kinds of things with it.
