Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.
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I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.
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My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.
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I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
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Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
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Raindrops keep fallin' on my headAnd just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bedNothin' seems to fit
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When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life.
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: No comment, since this is still hovering (see Larry's reply).Flutter, flutter.
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It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a single cell so long ago myself that I have no memory at all of that stage in my life.
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I had a lot of self-confidence.
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A lot of people might sit back and watch Dominick Cruz doing his footwork, and say, 'Oh, Dominick Cruz just dancing around, and he runs away.' It's a totally different atmosphere until you get in there, and you actually experience it.
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Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.
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Fandom can keep something alive, and fandom can take it down.
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My sister could fall asleep at the drop of a hat. She would fall asleep on the train. Me, I never slept. Still. I have a hard time sleeping. But I used to admire her ability to wake up late.
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Who wouldn't be depressed living in a society that can't agree on reality, let alone health-care policy?
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Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.
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The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
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A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.
