Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions.
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While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.
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I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
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Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.
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Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.
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It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.
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People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.
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I generally travel with my laptop, a couple of great books, and my iPod.
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I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.
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At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
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As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House.
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I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.
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Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusive.
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Perseus wore a magic cap that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. We draw the magic cap down over eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.
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Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.
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A fiancé is neither this nor that: he’s left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
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The sexiest thing that a woman can do, wear, and say all fall under one word to me: subtlety. To be subtle in the things that she does and the things she says and the things she wears - I appreciate the details.
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Accepting people as they are has the miraculous effect of helping them improve. Acceptance doesn't prohibit growth; rather, it fosters it.
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The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.
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It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.
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No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions.
