Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.
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I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York.
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New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.
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The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.
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I think a culture can really be elevated through the arts, and it's always a dream come true when I come across roles that enable me to fuse my love of storytelling with my passion for activism and raising social awareness.
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In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.
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There isn't a lot written about the motorcycle culture.
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The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
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Latinos been a part of hip-hop culture and every other culture; we've been influential in every aspect of life.
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From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an interesting a career, a high-status mate, the desirable handbag or vacation, the perfect family size, and a definitionally fruitless quest for 'perfection.'
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I grew up in Jerusalem and went to school here. I studied at the Hebrew University - mostly Islam and Arabic: Arab literature, Arab poetry and culture, because I felt like we are living in this region, in the Middle East, and we are not alone: There are nations here whose culture is Arab.
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On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
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From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.
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I'm pleased that the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of the expat bankers and their girlfriends that are going to be coming.
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The population is in a constant state of enforced dislocation. So let us hope that a totally new culture will come out of this.
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The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.
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Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.
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This is a culture filled with perfect images of women and perfect images of movie actresses, and most people can't live up to them.
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The U.K. is outward-looking, trade-oriented, growth-oriented, and we do not have enough of that storyline, that tradition, that culture within the European Union.
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RSS, as a format and an idea, grew directly out of an internet culture that many people online today know nothing about: Usenet.
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Gothic script seemed to warp every letter that passed through the door of the funeral parlour, as if death were a German village.
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If you grow up playing in church, it removes a lot of the boundaries that other musicians might have, growing up with sheet music or whatever.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
