Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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I like being unconventional.
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An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.
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As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.
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Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudently safeguard for future generations to come.
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Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit.
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LL Cool J is a huge presence. He is a music mogul. He brings that experience and that life into the room.
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I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.
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I don't think you can force a moral opinion or you can force something through a Bollywood film.
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France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
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If I can, I love staying in pajamas all day and watching movies and eating good food.
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I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.
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When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.
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There are some who might say that somebody named Barack Obama can’t be elected senator in the state of Illinois. They’re probably the same folks who said that a guy named Rod Blagojevich couldn’t be elected governor of the state of Illinois.
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Indeed, it is not too much to say that the normal relation of States is war.
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Don't want to meet your daddy, just want you in my caddy.
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A day after the faire.
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
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I shout at people... I am told that I'm a tyrant, but I still get things done, so that is fine.
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I don't really write for fun; it's not an enjoyable experience. For me, art, or whatever the hell it is I do, has always been a refuge from that which makes me want to tear my lungs out. That's why I play like I play; I'm not into entertainment.
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There is the illusion of the world and the reality of the Torah.
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We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
