Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine.
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.
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Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I hate competition.
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Nowadays, with much more racial and ethnic mixing, we are seeing serial killers murdering a variety of victims; whoever comes along will most likely do.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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The thing about dating someone who listens to a totally different genre than you is they can help you find things to appreciate in that genre.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.
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I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
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I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my 'Happy People' record. She said that she thought it represented the sprit of her husband. The license is from California. I get inspired every time I look at it.
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I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.
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The Taliban has not, in my judgment, in any significant way changed their fundamental goal and objective, which is to take over Afghanistan and return to running that country. It doesn't mean that we shouldn't have negotiation talks with them. I think we should. But we've got to be clear-eyed about it.
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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
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I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
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I actually don't have a single regret, professionally or domestically. I planned it that way.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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I don't want to be a musician forever. I want to keep going to school and become a lawyer for women's rights and also use the law to help women.
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That happy age when a man can be idle with impunity.
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I've always been fond of the idea expressed in Buddhist art, that there are certain objects that, just by seeing them, can plant a seed for liberation in the individual. That class of objects is called "liberation through seeing." Certain Buddha images are like that, but if it were possible, I would like to find contemporary non-traditional sacred images. Maybe it sounds pretentious, but most spiritual paths point to the possibility that we all can access the deep, absolute dimensions of reality.
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The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.
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What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine.
