Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That's where culture gets real ugly. It is when you rub up against its ideologies.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.
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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
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Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.
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I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'
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I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.
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Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion.
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My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.
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Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice.
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The only thing that was on my mind was, 'I want to play for India one day,' and I was pretty sure and confident that one day I will.
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If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.
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Not once in my life have I done theatre. Being on stage is not my thing.
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I think that it's fun to get the script and open it like a Christmas present. That's 'Alcatraz' or anything that I'm working on. If the groundwork has been laid too much, the surprises aren't there.
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You don't realize it until you go out and take a look, but there are so many ways in which sexism is just allowed in our culture, not just in the entertainment industry. It's just allowed to be there, and that's not acceptable anymore. And I think it's really important to be very vocal.
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I've spent my life making blunders.
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The thing about Canada is that it's a very large country, and the population's very spread out among different regions. Each region in the country really has its own personality and its own culture, you know? From West Coast to East Coast - wherever you go, it's almost like it's its own country.
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When I'm writing for other people, I have to play it safe.
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Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?
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Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That's where culture gets real ugly. It is when you rub up against its ideologies.
