Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between industry and academics.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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I can't wait to get on stage, because there you don't worry about whether you'll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether you'll ever have another boyfriend again, you don't worry about the typical boundaries of how your life has to be.
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Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
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If I realize that actually there's quantum mechanics happening around us all the time in some macroscopic, interconnected way, then that doesn't change my perception of it, that doesn't change my interaction with it; it just changes how I view my interaction.
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I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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It's very irresponsible to deny the reality of a problem to see whether it might stop existing.
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When I sit down to write, I know everything I need to know... I start writing, and within 30 seconds or 60 seconds, I'm watching a movie. I'm not making this stuff up; the characters are acting it out,and I'm just writing it down.
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Good style - regardless of fads - means the thing that suits your body.
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I started out as an impressionist and that's all about observing - how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.
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Our elders are always optimistic in their views of the present, pessimistic in their views of the future; youth is pessimistic toward the present and gloriously hopeful for the future. And it is this hope which is the lever of progress-one might say, the only lever of progress.
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I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea.
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New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.
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No one makes you feel anything. It is how you react and respond that determines your emotions.
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I shall gather myself into my self again, I shall take my scattered selves and make them one.
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Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.
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The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? – in toil, suffering and blood.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn. This murder would have been infinitely more difficult to unravel had the body of the victim been simply found lying in the roadway without any of those outré and sensational accompaniments which have rendered it remarkable. These strange details, far from making the case more difficult, have really had the effect of making it less so.
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The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.
