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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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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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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If you are worried about the risk to your reputation, you don't launch a telecoms firm in an aggressive way.
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The Taj is pinkish in the morning, milky white in the evening and golden when the moon shines. These changes, they say, depict the moods of woman.
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The stag at eve had drunk his fill,Where danced the moon on Monan's rill,And deep his midnight lair had madeIn lone Glenartney's hazel shade.
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The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
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The research I have been doing - studying how foodstuffs yield energy in living cells - does not lead to the kind of knowledge that can be expected to give immediate practical benefits to mankind. If I have chosen this field of study, it was because I believed in its importance in spite of its theoretical character.
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Tariq: I do it for the girls
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I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture.
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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!
