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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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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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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There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
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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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My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a very young age when his dad's farm collapsed. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one. My father was full of terrifying anger.
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I'm very open about the fact that it's nice when someone says you're pretty. Especially for someone like me.
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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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I'm not going to become anybody I don't want to become.
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The Public provides freedom...Individualism begins after the roads are built, after individualists have had an education, after medical research has cured their diseases.
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… when we place our hope in worldly vanities, in money, in success. Then the Word of God says to us: 'Why do you seek the living among the dead?'. Why are you searching there? That thing cannot give you life! Yes, perhaps it will cheer you up for a moment, for a day, for a week, for a month … and then?
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I believe children's blessings are very powerful.
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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.
