Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
I think there's a shamanic temperament, which is a person who craves knowledge, knowledge in the Greek sense of gnosis. In other words, knowledge not of the sort where you subscribe to Scientific American, and it validates what you believe, but cosmologies constructed out of immediate experiences that are found to be always applicable.
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I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.
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If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?
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I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors - even billionaires - as long as I can study them before I photograph them.
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I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can connect with.
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Si eres bueno con éste, con aquél dirán que eres bueno. Si eres bueno con todos, nadie dirá que eres bueno.
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'Tusk' was clearly a line in the sand that I drew.
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It's important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it's been possible, and that window could be open for a long time - hopefully it is - or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.
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I don't think I've done any profound work yet... People ask me, 'How would you want to be remembered?' I tell them I don't want to be remembered! I'm not here to become a Madhubala or receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. I'm not that kind of a person. And I'm not brash about it; it's just the way I am.
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One of the freedoms you get if you earn a lot of money from a book is to throw away what you want. And if you throw a lot away, the good stuff always comes back; nothing is lost.
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Money is like manure, it should be spread around.
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Exercise caution, as I have advised many people.
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Why do those who keep insisting Jesus hung out with sinners also keep insisting there's no such thing as sin?
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By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory.
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The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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I'm intrigued by what video can do. It can endear you to a song that might pass your ears otherwise. You remember interesting imagery. It can change your perspective.
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Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.
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My success will be remembered by others. I don't have to constantly remind myself. However, I must always remember my failure, for if I forget them, I am bound to myself.
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I think men are afraid to say that they would love to have Michelle Obama in their bed, but they think it.
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I'm not asking you to agree with me, but at least open your mind.
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I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There was not enough time to write and I didn't know how to write novels. Therefore, I made written collages of aphorisms and rags.
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Most of the time we like the idea of our own freedom. There are times when we do not at all like the idea of the freedom of others. If we suffer because of their freedom, let us remember that they suffer because of ours.
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I think there's a shamanic temperament, which is a person who craves knowledge, knowledge in the Greek sense of gnosis. In other words, knowledge not of the sort where you subscribe to Scientific American, and it validates what you believe, but cosmologies constructed out of immediate experiences that are found to be always applicable.
