Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The planet has a kind of intelligence, it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human being. The message that nature sends is, transform your language through a synergy between electronic culture and the psychedelic imagination, a synergy between dance and idea, a synergy between understanding and intuition, and dissolve the boundaries that your culture has sanctioned between you, to become part of this Gaian supermind
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Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
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If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.
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I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
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New York City is my favorite city in the world.
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Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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I like to post positive content, and I like to try and make people smile. That's why those videos are popular. I don't fake it.
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The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.
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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
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People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.
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I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying.
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There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.
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We think that there really is racial bias in determining who people want to date.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.
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Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate. So, with reckless abandon, we strive to be like the majority.
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Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.
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When you feel this knowledge and this spark in yourself, you've gotta continue feeding it. The best thing is to spend time around other wise men, that keeps it burning. That keeps it in every degree sharp as steel, but make sure you absorb enough to find out how it sparks from yourself, how the self starts the self. Once you've got that you should be free. That's freedom, to me.
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I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.
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The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.
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The planet has a kind of intelligence, it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human being. The message that nature sends is, transform your language through a synergy between electronic culture and the psychedelic imagination, a synergy between dance and idea, a synergy between understanding and intuition, and dissolve the boundaries that your culture has sanctioned between you, to become part of this Gaian supermind
