Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The reason for the emphasis on shamanism and on other techniques is, you will need techniques if you go into the deep water. And they can make your life very simple and save you from unnecessary suffering. Not all suffering is necessary. Maybe no suffering is necessary.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.
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With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.
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I got lost but look what I found.
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I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.
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I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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The guest to me was always paramount.
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I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
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It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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I need to have better knife skills... for vegetables.
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Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.
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People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
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As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
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The words they spoke were voices that she heard. She looked at them and saw them as they were And what she felt fought off the barest phrase.
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I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.
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Songs are really interesting in that way. Sometimes, they grow with you. Sometimes, you outgrow them.
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You can have very big local government. By big, I mean very engaged government. Do you measure it in terms of the number of laws? Number of employees? You could make arguments for either one. I tend to think the axis of the size of government is the wrong concern. But I do think that situating power more locally is a legitimate approach.
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Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
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And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.
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Nothing in my life is going right, right now and there's got to be a reason for that. I think that God is trying to get my attention to tell me that this is going to end very, very badly if I don't walk away from it.
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The reason for the emphasis on shamanism and on other techniques is, you will need techniques if you go into the deep water. And they can make your life very simple and save you from unnecessary suffering. Not all suffering is necessary. Maybe no suffering is necessary.
