Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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For the entirety of my career, I have taken the fights that no one wanted because I fear no man.
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Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
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I like to improvise.
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Pilates is great.
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I'm on Facebook anonymously. I wanted to see how people use it, what's going on there, but I personally didn't want to be on it because everybody in the world tries to get to you with scripts.
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I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.
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I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.
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How do you let go of attachment to things? Don't even try. It's impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.
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Looking at it now.It all seems so simple.We were lying on your couch.I remember.You took a Polaroid of us.Then discovered (then discovered)The rest of the world was black and white.But we were in screaming color.And I remember thinking…
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99% of my life I was lied to. I just found out my mom does more dope than I do(Damn!). I told her I'd grow up to be a famous rapper, make a record about doing drugs and name it after her (-Oh, thank you!).
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As Anthony said to Cleopatra as he opened a crate of ale:'Oh, I say, some girls are bigger than others,Some girls' mothers are bigger than other girls' mothers.
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I loved Justice and Uffie and everyone signed to the label Ed Banger. They were really influential to me when first started making music.
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Deep down, I think I would be utterly miserable in Hollywood.
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I had no aspirations to be part of American cinema... I was really a Europe-based person, and those were the films I was inspired by.
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Formalized rules of manners were so great because they left no room for basic human haplessness. They allowed us to circumvent our natural boorish tendency to disregard the feelings of others.
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I ate cucumbers and saltines - not because I wanted to look a certain way, but because I was so sad my appetite disappeared.
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If you think about it, I was at college, and then three months later, I was a massive pop star. It's stress-making, especially when you're a bit of an oddball as I was, the black sheep left to your own devices, and then suddenly everyone's interested in you.
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Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.
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Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.
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When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it.
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A grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.
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Everyone needs reminders that the fact of their being on this earth is important and that each life changes everything.
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Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy.
