Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
No one yet understands the mysterious intelligence within plants or the implications of the idea that nature communicates in a basic chemical language that is unconscious but profound. We do not yet understand how hallucinogens transform the message in the unconscious into revelations beheld by the conscious mind.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.
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If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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Balancing my career between two industries has never been an issue. I started with a Telugu film and have a soft corner for the south industry, though I've grown up speaking Hindi. I don't think language can be a barrier when it comes to acting. And, since I come from a theatre background, I'm used to memorizing my lines.
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Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that which is normally generated by traditional offline businesses of comparable size.
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The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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All things are at odds when God lets a thinker loose on this planet.
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The neurosis of normality is a case of repetition compulsion caused by the repression of awareness.
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Let's grow old and die together. Let's do it now.
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That's one thing you Americans take for granted, you know? That you can grow up, you know, not so good circumstances, and you can move. Just because you are born in rural Arkansas, whatever, that doesn't define who you are.
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I'm pretty smart with boys. I know how to handle them and I know what to do around them.
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Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.
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We don't want to be reminded that life ends at some point, so they don't put older people on the screen.
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Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
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I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me.
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I've been joking that 'On the Road' is the prequel to 'The Road.' I don't know if that's a very good joke.
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You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is impossible for an anxious person, a worried one, or a fearful one to perceive truth; all things are distorted and thrown out of their proper relations by such mental states, and those who are in them cannot read the thoughts of God.
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The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions.
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You adapt your look to places you live, where you are and what you are doing.
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Anyway, Big Brother 7: that was that. Big Brother 8 is scheduled to take place in the glowing centre of an irradiated war-torn wasteland formerly known as Earth. See you there.
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No one yet understands the mysterious intelligence within plants or the implications of the idea that nature communicates in a basic chemical language that is unconscious but profound. We do not yet understand how hallucinogens transform the message in the unconscious into revelations beheld by the conscious mind.
