Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
What people notice about when they are on LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
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Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.
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I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.
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I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.
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It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it's the kind of thing that makes me feel like - even as it's been bestowed upon me - I must continue to live up to what it means... Being the younger laureate in the age of social media is a new challenge.
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In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.
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Around them the gawping locals sat, amazed with an amazement that never grew less…
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The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
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I am after ME his response on the question what he was after, in his sober painting in 1963 'Sun in an empty room'.
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The work I have done in private practice has been assisting companies and organizations to work with an incredibly complex federal government. I'm proud of the impact I've had for these organizations, including organizations here in Pinellas County.
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I'd rather go by bus.
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When you're young, you don't have a lot of control over even basic things in your life - where you live, what you eat, where you go during the day, how you get there. You don't have a lot of control, and that can feel sort of unstable in its own way because you don't get a say in those basic things.
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I always loved cars. I used to play 'Need for Speed' all the time... any racing game.
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I'm a real hoarder.
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It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I had were also incorporated into the script.
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There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.
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So many able historians have worked over seventeenth-century New England that one would think there was little left to be learned from the people who lived there - fewer than 100,000 at the end of the century. Seldom, apart perhaps from the Greeks and Romans, have so few been studied by so many.
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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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Out-of-balance praying leads to no praying at all!
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I'm an essayist. And this is a genre that has existed for a few thousand years. Ever heard of Cicero? So these rules that I'm working under are not mine but rather were established by writers who recognized the difference between the hard research of journalism and the kind of inquiry of mind that characterizes the essay.
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What people notice about when they are on LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.
