Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This is the way engineers get high. They go to the moon!
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I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
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I'm usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they've aired. But I love 'House of Cards,' 'The Killing,' 'Orange Is the New Black,' loved 'True Detective,' and 'Arrested Development' when it was on. Also 'The Wire,' though I was way late to the game on that.
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Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
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I lost the ball in the moon.
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The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.
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When 'Romeo and Juliet' came along, I fell in love with the way that it was written and how innocent and vulnerable it was and how different it was from 'True Grit.' I really liked that.
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Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!
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I love wearing my hair curly, but turning the curling iron all the way up creates curls that look really made up and artificial.
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When we moved to L.A., I started going out for more commercials, and then one day they emailed me a movie script. The first thing I said was, 'No way. I love commercials.'
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We are protecting Europe according to European rules that say borders can be crossed only in certain areas in a controlled way and after registration.
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There is a way to share an insight into your personal life without being classless, which is what I'm trying to do.
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Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
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Ryan finally came to my rescue. He'd thought working together in Paper Moon would help us bond.
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When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn't like I sat down and the first thing I wrote was even halfway legit. It took a while to find my way through it.
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I worked my way up in the private sector and implemented Georgia's tough voter ID law.
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The way I see it, if people truly love my music, they will support me in some way down the road.
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Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
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'Braveheart' is way up there for me.
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I'm trying as hard as I can, and sometimes things don't go your way, and that's the way things go.
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Dreams of doing goodFor good-for-nothing people.
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If you are funding researchers to look primarily for pathology, not surprisingly, that is what they are going to find and report on.
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And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back--if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day?
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Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here is a jewel among hobbits!
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Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This is the way engineers get high. They go to the moon!
