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.Terence McKenna
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You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.
Gaines Adams -
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.
Camilo Villegas -
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.
Mae Jemison -
Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
Idi Amin -
I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
Tamsin Egerton
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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.
Garry Trudeau -
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
E. M. Forster -
I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
Viggo Mortensen -
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.
Mandy Patinkin -
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.
Taylor Sheridan -
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.
Harold Pinter
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Obviously comedic styles do change.
Larry David -
That should probably be written: no !@#$%^&*:@!semicolon
Larry Wall -
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.
Dave Davies The Kinks -
Often, I went in love with some friends in school. And, no, I suffered. Only later, things went better.
Andrea Bocelli -
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.
Mark Frost -
I try to face things without regret, or make sure that I'm happy with things and leave nothing unsaid if I can.
Andrew Hozier-Byrne
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The thought of Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni nursing secret, unfulfilled ambitions saddened Mma Ramotswe, as did the thought of people wanting something very much indeed and not getting the thing they yearned for. When we dismiss or deny the hopes of others, she thought, we forget that they, like us, have only one chance in this life.
Alexander McCall Smith -
The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.
Oscar Wilde -
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.
Terence McKenna