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.
Olivia Wilde
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
Jack Horner
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I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.
Oliver Reed
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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
Zubin Mehta
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Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.
Daniel Burnham
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There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
J. William Fulbright
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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.
Orhan Pamuk
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
Zhang Yimou
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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.'
Gayle Forman
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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.
Sam Shepard
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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.
Karen Abbott
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Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion.
Kabir Bedi
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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.
Jack Welch
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Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice.
Lady Gaga
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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.
Sachin Tendulkar
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If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.
Bill Rodgers
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Not once in my life have I done theatre. Being on stage is not my thing.
Barun Sobti
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Reality TV is to popular because it allows so many people to sit on the sidelines and just watch somebody else's life. God is saying, 'Don't sit on the sidelines of life. I have put so much in you, but you have got to be strong and very courageous. You have got to step out in faith.'
Victoria Osteen
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So, okay, I'm not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses.
Bonnie Bassler
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He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen, and his colleagues not least.
John Maynard Keynes
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You've got to push things and get bumps and bruises along the way.
Anthony Levandowski
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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.
Terence McKenna