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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It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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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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One of the things about jail that's weird is that you're sent to a place where you're supposed to sit there and think about your actions and their consequences and why you're there. And I think now, it turns more into - the minute you go there, it's just survival.
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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'm not angry; I write about angry characters. When I'm doing that, I'm happy. Just like when I'm writing about Mickey Sabbath being lustful, I'm not feeling lustful; I'm happy.
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There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.
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If you love all things, you will also attain the divine mystery that is in all things. For then your ability to perceive the truth will grow every day, and your mind will open itself to an all-embracing love.
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We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.
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The Press is not our daily bread but our daily sugar pill.
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The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.
