Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.
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My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.
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I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.
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Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.
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When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.
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I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'
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I am so saddened by the loss of our dear friend, Bonnie Franklin. She was just full of light and love. Bonnie will be very much missed by all the people she touched with her love.
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My God, I have almost never believed in you, and yet I have always loved you.
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For me the visual is just as important as the music. I would never record without my red lipstick. It was my way of getting into character, sort of like Method singing.
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Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.
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The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.
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One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process.
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A lot of artists have a lot of different ventures, I think it's typical for a hip hop artist, at this point, to have a bunch of different ventures.
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I wish there was a word more than 'love' itself to convey what I feel for you.
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These French-style caramels are handmade in California. It's always hard to give them away!
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Open-faced sandwiches take risks and live big and smile with all their teeth. These are the people I want to be around.
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You can say what you want about me. You can yell at me with a video camera and be TMZ. You can follow me around and take pictures all you want. I don't care.
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We're under pressure because we haven't reached the point where we can form a stable government yet.
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I hope you find, as I did, that happiness comes from noticing and enjoying the little things in life.
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This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well.
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For Marx, 'pure' economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible.
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At a time when Europeans already had a long history of violent contact with Native people, Lewis and Clark made most of their journey in peace.
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When you think about it, there is really a fine line between being a proctologist and just being a perverted ass-freak. And according to the judge who sentenced me, that line is called a 'medical degree'.
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Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.
