Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
And that we cannot go to space with our feet in the mud. Nor can we in fact turn ourselves into an eco-sensitive hallucinogenic-based culture on Earth unless we fuse these dichotomous opposites. It is only in a coincidencia oppositorum, a union of opposites, that does not strive for closure, that we are going to find cultural sanity. And this is the thing that the entheogens, the hallucinogens, deliver with such clarity and regularity. They raise paradox to a level of intensity that no one can evade.
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I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.
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I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.
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I would love to work with the great movie actors of our time.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.
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My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.
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There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.
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I've made a lot of game-winners.
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I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.
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Vegetarians should have that moral basis-that a man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows.
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Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
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Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.
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I loved 'Homeland' - it's such an intriguing, intelligent piece of television, and I am fascinated by them making a hero and heroine that are so odd, so flawed and so complicated. It is a programme that really draws you in.
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That was all and it was enough for me: fantasies are better left fantasies.
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People come to the Fountain Theatre because they've got hearts that are working and they've got heads that are working. They use the Fountain Theatre because it puts them in touch with the world that they're living in.
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Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up.
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Thoughtful education programs and access to effective forms of contraception are key to preventing unplanned pregnancy.
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.
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There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.
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Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.
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And that we cannot go to space with our feet in the mud. Nor can we in fact turn ourselves into an eco-sensitive hallucinogenic-based culture on Earth unless we fuse these dichotomous opposites. It is only in a coincidencia oppositorum, a union of opposites, that does not strive for closure, that we are going to find cultural sanity. And this is the thing that the entheogens, the hallucinogens, deliver with such clarity and regularity. They raise paradox to a level of intensity that no one can evade.
