Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.
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I don't want to be held down by genres so much.
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We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict.
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I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.
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I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
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The wonderful thing about writing for theatre is you can go anywhere you want with the language. There are no limits. With film, they frown on language - it's always 'Too many words.'
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God surrounded me with the right team, with the team that I needed to help me exercise all of my ideas. You need that. You need that army, you need that force.
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Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril
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If I can break one out of every three return games, I'm going to give myself a shot in a lot of matches.
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It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with respect to their limits and their self-preservation.
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When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.
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Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the history of the world, where slaves have been educated for freedom by their task-masters?
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I have 'Purple Rain' on purple vinyl.
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I went on the courts with just a ball and a racket and a hope...and that's all I had.
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I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rush like racing a car.
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Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
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But Carroll's were more convoluted, and they struck me as funny in a new way: 1) Babies are illogical. 2) Nobody is despised who can manage a crocodile. 3) Illogical persons are despised. Therefore, babies cannot manage crocodiles. And: 1) No interesting poems are unpopular among people of real taste. 2) No modern poetry is free from affectation. 3) All of your poems are on the subject of soap bubbles. 4) No affected poetry is popular among people of taste. 5) Only a modern poem would be on the subject of soap bubbles. Therefore, all your poems are uninteresting.
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In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.
