Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language and understanding to stop the momentum of the historical process, to halt nuclear proliferation, germ warfare, infantile 19th century politics, all these things. It cannot be accomplished through a frontal assault upon it by political means.
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I just want to do my job.
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.
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Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.
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Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.
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When everyone is telling you, 'You're so beautiful, there's nobody like you,' you begin to think it's true. But of course there is nobody like you.
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In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.
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I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.
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Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement.
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To some people, Common Core means what it actually is, which is a set of standards. That's not necessarily most people. To other people, Common Core is a new curriculum that's been implemented at their school that they don't understand. It's applying new teaching tools.
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When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmother.
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You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.
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Margaret, Texas is lost.
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When I was 16 or 17, when I started, I never even considered not doing a project. I just wanted to work.
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Everyone has a dormant wrestling character in them that is pretty easy to tap into.
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The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.
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Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language and understanding to stop the momentum of the historical process, to halt nuclear proliferation, germ warfare, infantile 19th century politics, all these things. It cannot be accomplished through a frontal assault upon it by political means.
