Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
It seems to me that information is the thing which uses matter, uses light, uses spirit, uses whatever it can put its hands on to organize itself into higher and higher levels of self-reflection.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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When people who are not black are interested in what I do, frankly, I'm always surprised. I don't know if it's my low expectations for white people or what.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.
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Sometimes there are some matchups and man-to-mans that you like to match up on.
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I think penguins are cute.
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
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When I first started performing, the only community that truly got what I was trying to do was the LGBTQ community.
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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
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I had the most fun on '3rd Rock'. It was a great show to work on.
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As image and apprehension are in an organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul.
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La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
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Casi no he tocado el barro y soy de barro.
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I'm glad I chose more vulnerable work about what is love and what is freedom and those kinds of things. But there's something innate in me where I always come back to characters with an edge.
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I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.
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Before blogs, it was all about physical presence. We used to send out videos and audiotapes to communicate. Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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The more authentic you become, the more genuine in your expression, particularly regarding personal experiences and even self-doubts, the more people can relate to your expression and the safer it makes them feel to express themselves. That expression, in turn, feeds on the other person's spirit, and genuine creative empathy takes place, producing new insights and learnings and a sense of excitement and adventure that keeps the process going.
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There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
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It seems to me that information is the thing which uses matter, uses light, uses spirit, uses whatever it can put its hands on to organize itself into higher and higher levels of self-reflection.
