Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
I really think there is a very large distinction between synthetic and naturally occurring drugs. ... I think that these plants 'take people' as much as people take the plants. ... When you take one of these ancient, ancient hallucinogens you are locking in to the morphogenetic fields of all the people who ever took it.
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.
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Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.
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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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I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
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When I'm working, I always read stuff that's as far away from what I'm working on as possible, so I'll read American crime fiction at bedtime, or Emily Dickinson.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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The blood will follow where the knife is driven,The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.
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The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.
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A part is greater than the whole; By hints are mysteries told. The fringes of eternity, - God's sweeping garment-fold, In that bright shred of glittering sea, I reach out for and hold.
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Usually I write the songs at home and then I bring them in to the band; when we play them as a band, that's kinda how we figure out the feel of how they're going to be presented on the record or live.
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You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let me go when I'm sick or asleep. Let me be in motion.
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I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all their support!
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You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.
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If smart technology can transform 3-D from a crude novelty to a genuine visual enhancement, why shouldn't a sophisticated odor synthesizer follow a similar path?
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For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.
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I grew up in a really small town, so it wasn't really a fashion-forward place, and it was very casual.
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I'm perfectly proud of the work I did, looking back at it. I know I've had a bit of a revision since my 'Big Finish' stories came out.
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In movies, we've run out of ideas for bad guys. We end up with politically incorrect villains, like Arab terrorists or Latin drug dealers or corrupt politicians. Well, aliens are the best film villains since the Nazis. You don't have to worry about offending anyone.
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A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
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Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.
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Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.
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I really think there is a very large distinction between synthetic and naturally occurring drugs. ... I think that these plants 'take people' as much as people take the plants. ... When you take one of these ancient, ancient hallucinogens you are locking in to the morphogenetic fields of all the people who ever took it.
