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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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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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'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
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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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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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The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.
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It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
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In the end, death came uniformly to all, and all extracted as much satisfaction from their dying as this essentially graceless process could afford.
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I never wanted 'Toy Story 3' to feel like another sequel just grafted on. We all know that if you put 3 after your title, it typically means garbage, and we knew that going in.
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To play vinyl onstage is not my thing. For me, vinyl is for home listening.
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Believe it or not, there are people who want to be on juries.
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I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.
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I only seem to date younger women.
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Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote, Fourteen-year-old, why are you such a goat? I'm fourteen years old, that is the reason, I giggle and dote in season.
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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?
