Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
There is a belief that there is a hyperobject called Overmind, or God, that casts a shadow into time. History is our group experience if this shadow. As one draws closer and closer to the source of the shadow, the paradoxes intensify, the rate of change intensifies. What is happening is that the hyperobject is beginning to ingress into three-dimensional space.
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I'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.
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It's true that I'm not ashamed of my body. I'm comfortable, and I think more women should be more confident.
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I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.
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It's not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye.
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New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
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From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.
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If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.
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Europe and European identity is rooted in Christianity.
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There is another form of selection best illustrated by the automatic telephone exchange. You dial a number and the machine selects and connects just one of a million possible stations. It does not run over them all. It pays attention only to a class given by a first digit, and so on; and thus proceeds rapidly and almost unerringly to the selected station.
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The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself…They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to be; they are what I worked for them to be: and now I see them, I hate them.
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Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.
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Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
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The world I was born into was one filled with music.
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I get naturally uncomfortable when I'm put under a magnifying glass.
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When you've been a character in a movie - and this has happened when we've done concerts as Spinal Tap or as The Folksmen - people see you as characters walking out of a movie. And you appear in public, then, to play, it's a very schizophrenic thing.
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Successful candidates follow a simple fundamental rule: Define yourself before your opponent can define you.
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I had this belief that I couldn't just accept to be treated as an object. It was a problem of dignity.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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There is a belief that there is a hyperobject called Overmind, or God, that casts a shadow into time. History is our group experience if this shadow. As one draws closer and closer to the source of the shadow, the paradoxes intensify, the rate of change intensifies. What is happening is that the hyperobject is beginning to ingress into three-dimensional space.
