Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Once you get to this place on what we might metaphorically call your spiritual quest, once you get to the place where you hear about psychedelics, the issue is no longer then about where is the gas peddle on the spiritual vehicle. The issue suddenly becomes, where is the brake? Because this is the fuel to go where you want to go. This is the power to lift you where you want to be lifted.
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The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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I like buying iTunes. It's instant.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.
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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
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If you feel that you can just come in the studio and freestyle on my song, then I'm ready to rap battle you. That's just how I feel about it because I know I'm way harder than another rapper freestyling on my song.
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Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.
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Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
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The best way to ruin a comedy is to throw a lot of money at it.
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I've been way too blessed. Had too much fun, too many rewards.
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At Barcelona, I had the best players ever, and they helped me to be a successful manager.
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My mum and my dad have really good taste in movies. My gran would tape them off the TV and write notes about them, rating them.
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I really consider myself a writer, and a writer who is sometimes a social critic. I'm not an ideologue, I don't join a party. I follow along and take notes. Sometimes I throw in my two cents.
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I realize you can't please everyone.
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When I eat better, I perform better.
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I am searching pure expression of that incomprehensible power, which works universally.
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Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.
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We must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there are no rules.
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I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan.
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Take disturbance as an awakening sign that you misunderstand something you assumed you understood.
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The wild stuff is all so overrated. Drinking, you don't feel good all the time. There's a lot of down, a lot of misery.
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Once you get to this place on what we might metaphorically call your spiritual quest, once you get to the place where you hear about psychedelics, the issue is no longer then about where is the gas peddle on the spiritual vehicle. The issue suddenly becomes, where is the brake? Because this is the fuel to go where you want to go. This is the power to lift you where you want to be lifted.
