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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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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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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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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An author must learn the principles of good storytelling only in order to write better from the heart.
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A lot of what we do in the studio on a day-to-day basis is you try to cast a line as far out as you can out into unknown waters and reel it back in, cut out stuff that isn't working, cut out stuff that isn't connecting to people.
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Till the time I found a creative outlet, I was trying to be extra creative at business, which would always put me in a situation of conflict with other stakeholders. The moment I started writing, my creative impulses were finally channelised.
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The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.
