Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
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What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.
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A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see the world as it really is. The logotherapist's role consists of widening and broadening the visual field of the patient so that the whole spectrum of potential meaning becomes conscious and visible to him.
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For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
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I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.
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I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.
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The word 'campaign' is a war term. So when you go into a campaign you just prepare to go to war. If you think this is an exercise in civic activity...then you are going to be surprised.-1985
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I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks the use of an angelic (or seemingly angelic character), whose likes have been written about for, oh, about 4,000 years, is ripping off Star Trek, has his head so thoroughly up his ass as to have blipped into an entirely new intestinally-based reality and desperately needs to get a wider frame of reference.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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I like more of the club mentality, where we're playing, and if we feel like we want to play a cover, we'll switch to that.
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I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.
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One week before Pitfall! was to be released, I only gave you one life to play the whole game. I was experimenting with that concept as sort of the ultimate challenge.
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You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.
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I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in the computer age. I think I'd be a very different writer. I find myself cutting and pasting, changing things around and deleting whole paragraphs constantly.
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The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church.
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That was the way things worked out: you got a certain fair share of good breaks from life, and you had no right to expect things your way every time.
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The past is useless. That explains why it is past.
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Walking is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside.
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Ryan Murphy and I share our love of horror and musicals. I think those things somehow go together.
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For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays.
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We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.
