Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to produce, not consume, media.
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Mum and Dad split up when I was nine. We upped and moved from London to Sussex, and suddenly I went from an urban life to nothing in the countryside - with a new father and new life.
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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
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The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed.
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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.
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The whole Fannibal thing is predominantly something that happens in a world I don't know about, which is the Internet.
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I say the last 10 percent of the way to perfection takes so much of your life that it isn't worth the effort. This overzealous attitude is what creates religious fanatics, body Nazis, and athletes who are exceedingly dull to converse with.
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One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process.
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I've made it very clear what I believe in -- a sense of family, community, respect for the law, Britain controlling its own direction.
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As slippery as smooth grapes, words exploding in the light like dormant seeds waiting in the vaults of vocabulary, alive again, and giving life: once again the heart distills them.
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The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.
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We can't look at them. We've got to go out there and do it ourselves. We're foolish if we're trying to look at the referees.
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If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.
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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.
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Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
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That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.
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I've been told I'm a player, but people still don't always return my calls.
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Things are achieved when they are well begun.
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Elections are about fucking your enemies. Winning is about fucking your friends.
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Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to produce, not consume, media.
