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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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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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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If you want to be taken seriously, always check your fly.
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People have said it's hypocritical for me to call myself a feminist and make the kind of music we are making, because we signed to a major in the U.K., and that system objectifies women. Or people have complained that I don't dance. But I like the idea that I can stomp around the stage if I want.
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As far as I know, most organizations are avoiding population issues because they're politically frightened by the charge that comes from some proponents of immigration that if you oppose the immigration policy we have now, you're a racist.. There is no way in the world we can forge a sustainable society without stabilizing the population. ... There's no practical way of stabilizing the population of the U.S. without reducing the immigration rate. When do we decide we have to do something, or do we wait until things are as bad here as they are in the countries people want to leave?
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We should be more modest in our belief that we can impose democracy on a country through military force.
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I appreciate the response and the support of fans, of people who actually don't mind watching me on screen... I just don't ever want to jeopardize that.
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What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?
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The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.
