Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency.
Terence McKenna
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In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.
Abhishek Bachchan
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
Odeya Rush
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
Randy Bachman
The Guess Who
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Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
Carl Lewis
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If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.
Pamela Meyer
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Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
Yakov Smirnoff
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The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.
Manu Bennett
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
Walter Kirn
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If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.
Vance Havner
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With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.
Flea
Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Human beings have always been mythmakers.
Karen Armstrong
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I think sometimes when you want attention, you can wear sunglasses, and people are like, 'Who is that?'
Kat Graham
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I don't get recognized in England. Not at all. Every so often, I get recognized in other countries.
Katie McGrath
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As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
J. D. Vance
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With the tentacles of branding reaching into every crevice of youth culture, leaching brand-image content not only out of street styles like hip-hop but psychological attitudes like ironic detachment, the cool hunt has had to go further afield to find unpilfered space and that left only one frontier: the past.
Naomi Klein
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Ireland is a series of stories that have been told to us, starting with the Irish Celtic national revival. I never believed in 'Old Ireland.' It has been made all of kitsch by the diaspora, looking back and deciding what Ireland is. Yes, it is green. Yes, it is friendly. I can't think of anything else for definite.
Anne Enright
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We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.
Clara Zetkin
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Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency.
Terence McKenna
