Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art.
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I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.
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I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.
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Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
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I've been married to the same man - even after the separation - longer than most people in this business. I'm sick to death of people mentioning it.
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Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.
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Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.
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It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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In my eyes, a patriot is little more than an international blackleg.
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After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.
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The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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I'm a happy camper when I'm doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of reading and adventures into what else is being done by other artists/writers and poets. Like breathing. I've written poems or fictions to go with a painting. The source for the inspiration of the art often eludes me.
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They still need to keep working at getting people to recognize it as an artsy place. There's the potential for Windward, but it's going to take some of the big landowner merchants realizing what we realize: that art pays for itself.
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Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art.
