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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My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.
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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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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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War is capitalism with the gloves off.
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Say: o brethren! Let deeds, not words, be your adorning.
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Anytime there's an actual grassroots movement that isn't funded by people trying to create a grassroots movement, I find that interesting.
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A woman without a past is like a fruitcake without brandy—insipid!
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show.
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I started using Twitter a lot and realized I had a lot of fans. Then I saw that I can share my music on Twitter and share my YouTube videos on Twitter. That's how I knew social media was going to be a platform to show my music. That's how I started. I started with Twitter.
