Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
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A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
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What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
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If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.
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The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
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I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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I introduced the Food Security Improvement Act in Congress to remedy the fact that most SNAP beneficiaries find themselves skipping meals or running out of benefits every month.
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The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.
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Stuart Murdoch is a really special human being - really creative, but also really kind and gentle.
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Nuclear terrorism is possible - it may be probable - but is survivable.
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I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish.
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We're fabricating a state-of-the-art concessions system for our touring, so we can feed the people and give them everything they need without having to wait on it.
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I hope to incorporate more variety of beats, more syncopation. It becomes very easy to play straight beats; straight rock is alluring.
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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
