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 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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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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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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It's like a pylon.
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И если умирает человек,с ним умирает первый его снег,и первый поцелуй, и первый бой...
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'Was the cow crossed?''No, your worship, it was an open cow.'
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The vengeful God of wrath and punishment is a mere fairytale. It simply is the Me That makes me fail.
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They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood.
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Jimi Hendrix is very important. He's my idol. He sort of epitomizes, from his presentation on stage, the whole works of a rock star. There's no way you can compare him. You either have the magic or you don't. There's no way you can work up to it. There's nobody who can take his place.
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When the doctor said I had diabetes, I conjured images of languishing on a chaise longue nibbling chocolates. I have no idea why I thought this.
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Nothing compares to pizza, and you discover and rediscover it when you are much too old, and you have got too much cholesterol and triglycerides...A collector is someone who is ready to devour the work of art that he wants to possess at all costs.
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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.
