Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
For unknown reasons, there is a tremendous concentration of psychoactive plants on the South American continent. The South American continent has more known hallucinogens than the rest of the planet combined.
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There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he's speaking in his American dialect, he looks like he's a brother from the 'hood. But as soon as he brings out that English thing, I'm like, 'Woo! You look like you're from London. Oh my God!' It's like everything on him changes. He's so cool!
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I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about.
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?
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I don't eat bad food. I probably just eat too much food, and I think a lot of people do.
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The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
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To play vinyl onstage is not my thing. For me, vinyl is for home listening.
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Where you are born, your parent's beliefs, or your ethnic background should not make you a target.
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They say time will make all this go away. But it's time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.
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They say my public persona don't have enough appeal, I take a lesson from Kanye and give 'em something real.
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I ate two waffles, a banana and cereal with blueberries. And that whas between my two breakfasts.
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Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.
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We have to have some form of politics. Politics is a form of resolving conflicts. Politics which comes from sincere motivation is constructive.
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The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof; but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by guessing.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.
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I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.
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For unknown reasons, there is a tremendous concentration of psychoactive plants on the South American continent. The South American continent has more known hallucinogens than the rest of the planet combined.
