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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All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
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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 God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.
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I kick-kick game, can't injure Nicki. That's why they nick-nicknamed me Ninja Nicki.
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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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Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone besides yourselves. And those, Ananda, who either now or after I am dead, Shall be a lamp unto themselves, Shall betake themselves as no external refuge, But holding fast to the truth as their lamp, Holding fast to the truth as their refuge, Shall not look for refuge to anyone else besides themselves, It is they who shall reach to the very topmost height; But they must be anxious to learn.
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Persistence is incredibly important. Persistence proves to the person you're trying to reach that you're passionate about something, that you really want something.
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There ought to be an onus on the people that want a law, rather than people that don`t need a new law.
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Will our life not be a tunnel between two vague clarities? Or will it not be a clarity between two dark triangles?
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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.
