Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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Well, first I have to make the team, of course.
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I entered the acting world at a time when there was a higher demand for Middle Eastern actors in the post-9/11 world, and yeah, the roles weren't great.
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When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.
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I didn't choose acting. The universe did.
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.
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I have done a lot of work for affordable housing, rental housing. I understand the rap on me and other liberals is, oh, we push poor people into homeownership. And it's exactly the opposite of the case. We were trying to prevent those kinds of bad loans.
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I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat is transferred through food.
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If a woman feels anchored to a man's plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she's worried she's missing.
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The same crime element that white people are scared of black people are scared of. While they waiting for legislation to pass, we next door to the killer. All them killers they let out, they're in that building. Just because we black, we get along with the killers? What is that? We need protection too.
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Come ordine era dato, il tutto avvenne,Che 'l consiglio del mal va raro invano.
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I devour books. But for the longest time, I refused to pay attention to genre or labels.
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From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.
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Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known. Is it possible that you do not know the elementary fact in comparative anatomy, that the wing of a bird is really the forearm, while the wing of a bat consists of three elongated fingers with membranes between?
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This kind of art - the dystopic future kind of art - is designed to make you uncomfortable.
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Many people misunderstand me - I'm quite happy to be called a photographer. All of a sudden, the art world has caught up with photography, and they are trying to hijack us.
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I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.
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Eating a slice of white bread is like eating pure sugar.
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When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
