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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All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass - 'Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.'
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Real life is happening outside and not in front of a computer.
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Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.
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Imagine how differently American business would function were our faith in the power of goodness to replace our faith in the power of money. Huge industries would no longer make billions of dollars on activities that diminish the well-being and safety of our children, our health, and our environment, on the pretext that it's "just business." To put money before goodness is idolatry, and the laws of the universe ensure that in the end all idols will fall.
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It is easy when you are successful to think that you did it all by yourself and to forget that you didn't. You got here because a lot of things broke your way. You were lucky enough to be born into a family that could afford to take care of you well.
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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.
