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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I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.
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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 always thought it was sad that you couldn't get anything really good to eat at concerts, so we sit down with our fans before every show and eat a gourmet meal that we made for them.
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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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The more sophisticated we become - as we pierce reality and see the void beyond - the more our sense of wonder is destroyed, along with our reasons for being.
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You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.
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I think the market driven economic system is the most productive system, but to have that work in the world, you've got to also have social investments to go along with that.
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I don't see me doing $100 million films because $100 million films, the very nature of them, you need to offend as few people as possible just to make your money back.
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You don't have to wear fur. They make such great fakes. There's no reason to kill an animal.
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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.
