Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The movement of a single atom from one known position to another known position changes an experience from nothing to overwhelming. This means that mind and matter at the quantum mechanical level are all spun together.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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The only foreplay I really need is for a guy to kiss my hip bone. The hip is the most erotic and neglected body part. Kiss the hip bone with your lips.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.
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Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.
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Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
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The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.
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I am married.
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Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.
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Having a Republican candidate speak at the NAACP convention is like trying to build a house starting at the roof. If you don't have a foundation, the roof isn't going to stand.
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When Bush says that Abu Ghraib was the work of a few, he forgot to mention that he was one of them.
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I find inspiration by feeling like I haven't done or achieved anything. I push all songs I've written to the furthest part of my mind so I am not thinking of what I've done. I continue to think on what I need to do.
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There’s no need for us to be held back by the past or how things have been so far. The important thing is what seeds we are sowing now for the future.
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OPN is completely off the grid. Its like the slime underneath techno and other synth-oriented music.
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Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
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Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur.
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The movement of a single atom from one known position to another known position changes an experience from nothing to overwhelming. This means that mind and matter at the quantum mechanical level are all spun together.
