Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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I hate to travel with stuff.
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I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
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I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.
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There is a certain comfort in waking up and finding that Michael Jackson is still the Big Story. At least it tells you that nothing horrible has happened in the world that would force them to move on to real news.
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As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.
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I worked in Dad's stores, moving boxes - I remember quite well one stockroom that was upstairs - sweeping floors, laying tile. I also had paper routes.
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I just go where my heart tells me, where my gut tells me to go, where I'm enjoying my life the most, where I feel like I can have the most success. I've truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR, to the point that I want to do it full time.
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I'm an anti-Platonist, so I wouldn't say that stock was a stock of ideas or certainly not an ideal form, because I don't believe there is something out there, except out there. There's something in here and there's something out there, and there's mediation between the two.
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''A woman's wisdom is her gift to women,'' Peggy quoted. ''Her beauty is her gift to men. Her love is her gift to God.''
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I say bomb the hell out of them. If there's collateral damage, so be it. They certainly found our civilians to be expendable.
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I hope life treats you kind And I hope you have all you've dreamed of. And I wish to you, joy and happiness. But above all this, I wish you love.
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I learn a lot as a director from acting in other people's films and just in general.
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We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.
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I'm a man without a corporation.
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Ideas are somewhat like babies-they are born small, immature, and shapeless. They are promise rather than fulfillment. In the innovative company executives do not say, 'This is a damn-fool idea.' Instead they ask, 'What would be needed to make this embryonic, half-baked, foolish idea into something that makes sense, that is an opportunity for us?'
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Shane? Thank God, somebody sane. Well, sane-ish.
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To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
