Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
We are an intelligent species caught in an historical process. No generation which proceeded us knew what was going on, and there is no reason to assume that we know what's going on or that the generation which follows us will know what's going on. And what kind of trip is it anyway to insist on knowing what's going on?
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There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.
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The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
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I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
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I did a few DJ gigs at empty clubs, sort of as a warm-up set before Flume was a thing. I did one when I got big enough, and I had five friends come down, and they were the only ones dancing. That was one of my earliest ones. I was super nervous.
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I'm not interested in celebrity.
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People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
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I was the Head Boy of East High School in 1999. I represent 303 - the area code, not the band - Mile High, until I die. I'm 31, a comedian; I juggle, but I don't glove it. I think waxed mustaches run a very thin line between hipster and 1800s barkeep.
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There's a wealth of information on James Dean, and everybody has an opinion on him. James Dean made some kind of impression on everybody.
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A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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I have not changed my opinion that the Holocaust is a trauma of European civilization.
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Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.
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I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.
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Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.
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I don't know whether it's audiences or filmmakers who want characters to be likable today, but I don't think actors are afraid of their characters being unlikable.
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So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
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I think winning brings togetherness and, when you have beautiful experiences together and you win trophies, then those experiences stay within that group.
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This general tendency to eliminate, by means of unverifiable speculations, the limits of the categories nature presents to us is the inheritance of biology from The Origin of Species. To establish the continuity required by theory, historical arguments are invoked, even though historical evidence is lacking. Thus are engendered those fragile towers of hypothesis based on hypothesis, where fact and fiction intermingle in an inextricable confusion.
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We are an intelligent species caught in an historical process. No generation which proceeded us knew what was going on, and there is no reason to assume that we know what's going on or that the generation which follows us will know what's going on. And what kind of trip is it anyway to insist on knowing what's going on?
