Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.
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God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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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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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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When you're the president of the United States, you have no money unless the Congress says, 'Here's what you can spend it on.'
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My workout involves cardio, jogging, and yoga as well. I am a firm believer of yoga and meditation.
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American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.
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Going 3-13 is not acceptable.
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I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.
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I hate to travel with stuff.
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Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.
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I see feminism as a massive party. It's cool, the idea that 50% of the population can now start doing things and having fun and experimenting with their hair and makeup.
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Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
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I think a lot of people just aren't aware how young you can be and be diagnosed with breast cancer.
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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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There's only one thing more frightening than being asked to do a book tour, and that's not being asked to do a book tour.
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In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted.
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A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.
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I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.
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The kaleidoscope has been shaken. The pieces are in flux. Soon they will settle again. Before they do, let us re-order this world around us.
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Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.
