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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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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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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But - drive out prejudice with a pitch-fork it will ever return.
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I think to suggest that somehow Muslims aren't welcome in the USA, to suggest somehow that being a Muslim is incompatible with being western, unintentionally plays into the hand of Daesh and so-called Isis.
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Golden hands. It is said that all Poles have them, and that this is how you know your place in life, by the ease of your hands, that whether you are born to make cakes or butcher animals, cuddle children or paint pictures, drive nails or play jazz, your hands know it before you do. Long before birth, the movements are choreographed into the tendons as they're formed.
