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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My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.
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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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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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Oh, I'm a pretty bad poet. This has been corroborated by others.
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We are big composters. We compost everything - bread, tea bags, coffee grounds. I even dump out my old coffee in the garden. We keep a mixing bowl on the counter and just fill it up as the day goes along, then dump it in the mulch pile before dinner and wash it with the dinner dishes.
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I spent a long part of my childhood repressing my more animalistic desire systems, and in a way, it permits me to do some of the stuff that I would want to be doing in a way that's more comfortable and doesn't break my internal rules. It expands the realm of possibility.
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Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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Mind you, Roman Holiday - which is kind of a romantic comedy - is one of my favorite films, and I think Audrey Hepburn is absolutely phenomenal in that movie.
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Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours.
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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.
