Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more personal in that it's an effort to impart just one idea that came out of an involvement with psychedelic substances.

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• Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?

  

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• Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.

  

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• The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

  

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• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

  

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• If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself.

  

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• What you wish to others, God wishes to you.

  

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• Too often, when Europeans talked of trans-Atlantic ties, we focused on the North Atlantic only.

  

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• Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

  

  Ovid
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• My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.' I loved it. Especially the rocket ship, which I later realized had no airlock and no washroom. But they managed to get to Mongo with it.

  

  Jack McDevitt
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• The happiness I feel in having a family has brought me a real beauty.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• I think we have still to get to a place where we feel satisfied. We have this saying - 'In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king'. We are a little bit that way.

  

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• To see a candle’s light, one must take it into a dark place.

  

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• Whereas before you dwelt in time and paid brief visits to the Now, have your dwelling place in the Now and pay brief visits to past and future.

  

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• Oh my gravy!

  

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• I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which take place in collisions with the wall or with the molecules of a foreign gas.

  

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• Growing up in Florida and having naturally curly hair was a bit tough. I had to learn to do treatments and masks to keep the frizz under control.

  

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• I don't have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

  

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• On 'Ghost In The Shell,' I'm looking forward more to working with Scarlett Johannson and Rupert Sanders than portraying a lead!

  

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• 'A Reply to Professor Haldane' (1946), published posthumously in Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories (1966)

  

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• When I began as a model, everybody tried to remold me: I was too fat, too little, they tried to re-shape my teeth - I am very proud that I have stayed as I was.

  

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• I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very conscious of the difficulty of voice communication.

  

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• I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

  

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• My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more personal in that it's an effort to impart just one idea that came out of an involvement with psychedelic substances.

  

  Terence McKenna
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