Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.
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When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
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Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'll sort of be remarking on the character from outside of it. They're sort of commenting as they're playing the character. I think it's hard not to do that. I've certainly done that.
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The fights in future will not be over whether we ought to do something, but over how we ought to do it, and that's a reasonable debate.
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Its okay I'm wearing really big knickers.
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We cannot build the future by avenging the past.
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There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.
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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.
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But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true.
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Whatever the soul chooses to love, it will resemble. And therefore what we choose to love is important: Love is the force behind every level of existence. There is some good in every attraction, but there is a process of refining attraction, of choosing what to love, so that we are energized by a wider, purer love
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The undiscovered is not far away. It's not something to be found eventually. It is contained within what is right in front of us. The essence of reality is being born right now. It has never existed before.
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Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.
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All perfect things are saddening in effect. The autumn wood robed in its scarlet clothes, The matchless tinting on the royal rose Whose velvet leaf by no least flaw is flecked. Love's supreme moment, when the soul unchecked Soars high as heaven, and its best rapture knows, These hold a deeper pathos than our woes, Since they leave nothing better to expect.
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I do not need to look for time to communicate with children. My children are my life.
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Some days I woke up and got out of bed and brushed my teeth like any normal human being; some days I woke up and laid in bed and looked at the ceiling and wondered what the hell the point was of getting out of bed and brushing my teeth like any normal human being.
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The desire to reach for the sky runs very deep in the human psyche.
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Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.
