Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Part of what the psychedelic point of view represents is living a certain portion of your life without answers. Just accepting that certain dilemmas will never resolve themselves into some kind of a complete answer. That's why psychedelics are so different from any system being sold, from one of the great elder systems like Christianity, to the latest cult out of Los Angeles.
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You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.
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I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.
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All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.
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A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.
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I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.
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I went to eight different schools my first nine years of school.
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There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture.
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The great thing about Cairo is the vast majority of women wear some kind of head scarf, but they are also very fashion-conscious. They love bright colors.
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We know that we're not supposed to be racially biased, and we don't want to think of ourselves as racially biased, so we tell ourselves a different story.
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I have opinions, sure, but they're mine, not something I'm going to insist everyone else take as any kind of gospel.
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I don't want to be the next anyone. I just want to be me, now. And that means all different things.
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We had to give each other permission to be different as parents. That's why there's a mom and a dad with two different approaches, because you do need both.
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The immediacy of improvisation is intoxicating, but there's an intimacy that you get that's very different when you're doing drama.
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I've been coaching the sport for a number of years. And I went through many athletes. Some athletes stay with your program for a long, long period of time. Some athletes, they have a different approach as far as coaching style or your philosophies. I totally respect their own opinions - they have the right to choose their own coach.
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I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.
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One of the defining things about my career on camera is I like to play different characters. That gets difficult to do. People don't trust you to do something different. In animation, it's all about trust and how far can you go away from yourself. It's a really marvelous environment that's extremely creative.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination - it's not straight forward.
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Charles is life itself - pure life, force, like sunlight - and it is for this that I married him and this that holds me to him - caring always, caring desperately what happens to him and whatever he happens to be involved in.
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Every movie I've done, it's always the same criteria: finding a great story, and finding a great part to play.
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The writers are the backbone in television, like in film, but eventually, as an actress, I can bring something.
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Part of what the psychedelic point of view represents is living a certain portion of your life without answers. Just accepting that certain dilemmas will never resolve themselves into some kind of a complete answer. That's why psychedelics are so different from any system being sold, from one of the great elder systems like Christianity, to the latest cult out of Los Angeles.
