Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
It seems to me far more likely that an advanced civilization would communicate inter dimensionally and telepathically.
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My brothers and I always did improv stuff in our basement with our friends; we're super nerds, and that was our way of spending a Friday night.
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I'm going to scream this from the mountain top, there's no such thing as 'a curry.' There's six kazillion different kinds of curry. When someone asks how to make chicken curry, I have to ask 'Which one?'
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It's not that we like sad movies that make us feel like, 'Oh, my God, what a bummer.' We like emotionally moving experiences. It's nothing new. It's catharsis. It goes back to the Greeks.
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Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.
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Well, I've been a Republican for all of my voting life.
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In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.
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Mike [Mitchell] brought me on as co-director, and eventually we ended up sharing a brain. It was overwhelming initially when I was working with departments I hadn't had contact with before.
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Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks always the language of feeling.
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I needed a few more runs to get a world record myself - unfortunately these things happen.
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Did I choose you? Did you choose me? And what difference does it make? All that really matters, friend, is that we chose together.
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When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer to a definite problem. For better or worse you have acted decisively. In a way, the next move is up to him.
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When happy, be kind. When angry, be kind. When hopeful, be kind. When discouraged, be kind. When ever, be kind.
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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish - not sit intending on a chair.
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For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.
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A period film is a gift for a cinematographer.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
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I was always able to understand my friend who decided to quit smoking and who, through an effort of will, succeeded in doing so. One morning, he opened the newspaper, read that the first H- bomb had exploded, found out about the bomb's admirable effects and went straight to the tobacconist's.
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People have mistaken my break, I took a break from competition, it was because of mental problems, and because I was not agreeing with Performance Enhancing Drugs. I put the things on pause for a while, but I didn't retire.
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I ate all of my husbands. First I ate their love, then their will, then their despair, and then I made pies of their bodies – and those bodies were so dear to me!
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It seems to me far more likely that an advanced civilization would communicate inter dimensionally and telepathically.
