Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
At still higher doses psilocybin triggers this activity in the language-forming capacity of the brain that manifests as song and vision. Psilocybin may have synergized the emergence of higher forms of psychic organization out of primitive protohuman animals. It can be seen as a kind of evolutionary enzyme, or evolutionary catalyst.
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You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.
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I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
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It's what great artists do. They suffer and feel more within the human condition than others. They're not better for that, just more sensitive, and there's a burden to that.
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I like to describe 'Yellowstone' is 'The Great Gatsby' on the largest ranch in Montana. Then it's really a study of the changing of the West.
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I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.
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Obviously comedic styles do change.
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That should probably be written: no !@#$%^&*:@!semicolon
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People that have had genuine abduction experiences that I've met that seem very genuine to me, but they're just confused about why it happened. I've met a lot of people like which I regard as being very genuine... but there's a lot of crazy people out there.
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Often, I went in love with some friends in school. And, no, I suffered. Only later, things went better.
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I've always had an idealistic streak about storytelling in that I believe we owe more to audiences than repeatedly bludgeoning them over the head while stealing their lunch money. We owe them inspiration. That's why I'm more interested now in creating new heroes than hooking up jumper cables to old ones.
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I try to face things without regret, or make sure that I'm happy with things and leave nothing unsaid if I can.
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We must start understanding other cultures, such as the Aboriginal culture. They have a harmony with the Earth and from that harmony has grown a certain spirituality.
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I've been a member of Greenpeace since I was a teenager.
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We need more courageous individuals who will defy the structures of power, whether political, economic, or intimate, but we also need it to be safe for people to feel their power and to be able to express their ideas and imagine without fear.
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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At still higher doses psilocybin triggers this activity in the language-forming capacity of the brain that manifests as song and vision. Psilocybin may have synergized the emergence of higher forms of psychic organization out of primitive protohuman animals. It can be seen as a kind of evolutionary enzyme, or evolutionary catalyst.
