Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in the mathematical sense.
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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I'm kind of a private person.
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Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
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I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be demilitarized, there's no way to reverse statehood if it violates it.
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I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say.
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Travel is so important in its capacity to expand the mind. It's exciting to start as young as possible - you get to see how other cultures live, challenge your senses, and try different cuisines.
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I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic.
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I know just how isolating it can feel to experience severe anxiety.
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I'm a travel enthusiast.
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The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders.
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When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.
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I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
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I think whenever you come in, whenever you try to evolve a company, people will get nervous. But, if you articulate a clear vision, a clear mission to help them understand their roles in it and ask them to buy into the system, everyone will band together to make it happen.
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Almost half our representatives in Washington apparently know more about science than our scientists. Or they pretend to, because big corporations give them a lot of money to make sure they can keep doing the destructive things that they do.
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I think in this world and this industry, if you let it, it does. And I feel that the people who don't have good friends and family around them are the ones who get a little funny. But I'm very lucky. I have good friends and good family and if I ever stepped out of line, my mom would take me down!
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The whole history between Haiti and the Dominican Republic is complicated. We share the island of Hispaniola, and Haiti occupied the Dominican Republic for twenty-two years after 1804 for fear that the French and Spanish would come back and reinstitute slavery. So we have this unique situation of being two independent nations on the same island, but with each community having its own grievance.
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If a playwright is funny, the English look for a serious message, and if he's serious, they look for a joke.
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All beautiful things must end. Otherwise they are not beautiful.
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What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in the mathematical sense.
