Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.
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People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.
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I don't feel closeted.
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One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.
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Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.
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Truthfully, I've never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I'll look at photos and be like, 'Oh, that's not a good look.' But generally speaking, I'm not too thin.
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Australia is so influenced by America. It's kind of in-between the U.K. and the States.
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Composing's not voluntary, you know. There's no choice, you're not free. You're landed with an idea and you have responsibility to that idea.
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'Let us leave tomorrow’s trouble for the One who bore our troubles on the cross.'
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His conduct still right, with his argument wrong.
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Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
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The universe of mortgage lending has gotten to the point where there is a place in it for everybody.
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When a buyer leaves a negative review, it is a great opportunity to connect and find out why they did and how to make your business better.
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Freedom of love is freedom to say yes to many lovers.
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The worst job I ever had was when I had to try to sell a service for medical waste treatment.
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My mother was a businesswoman; my grandmother was a businesswoman - it never occurred to me that life might be harder because you're a woman. It wasn't until later and I had a bigger sense of the world that I realised that.
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'Strong Island' is slang for Long Island, New York. And it really grew out of - what may surprise people, it really grew out of the very vibrant hip-hop scene that, you know, is located and still generates artists out of Long Island.
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The question that I can't shake - it's this question that keeps coming up for me - is What does the shared home of the future look like? People are sharing homes at a rate that no one ever predicted, but residences and homes weren't designed for it. They were designed around ideas of privacy and separation.
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Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.
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I wish we all would get up and go into the labs and take the animals out or burn them down.
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It is my biggest regret that I let my marriage to Erica fail. It is what it is, and she is doing an incredible job with the kids, and we are in a great place.
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I am so organized that it's dysfunctional. Everything has a place. I am a very visual person, so my environment is important to me. If my environment is messy, I can't think clearly. I don't like clutter. A clean desk is a clean mind for me.
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Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.
