Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.
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I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it is always that, 'Oh. you're from the 'X Factor.' There have been certain radio stations that will not play your song because you are from the 'X Factor,' yet they'll play another song from an artist from another TV show.
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I have the sensation of doing something good for people, more than being a trendy artist or a successful artist.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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I'm in so many videos. There was a period of about two years where I danced for everyone: Kylie Minogue, Ed Sheeran, Jessie J, Taio Cruz. It got to the point where my fees were double the other girls', and I wouldn't even have to audition. They'd call my agent directly and say, 'We want twigs to come in.'
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.
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The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.
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When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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I didn't realize it. It looks like my career happened overnight, but it didn't. I was basically living on my own from when I was 17 on.
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All the Buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be - don't try to become. Within these two words - being and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
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My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.
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I think we're a working man's band.
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Being on 'American Idol,' the blessings of glasses have rained from the sky. I really would like to start a Danny line or a Gokey line of eyeglasses.
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Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.
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If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing.
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I'm a strong-and-stable-dollar advocate, and the Fed has been moving dangerously away from that mission.
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Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.
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Eventing is way too dangerous. People get killed every year doing cross-country.
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Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.
