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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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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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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The only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. Our charities should pinch and hamper us. If we live at the same level of affluence as other people who have our level of income, we are probably giving away too little.
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The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.
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There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.
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Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt - marvellous error! - That it was God I had here inside my heart.
