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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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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Our to-do lists are so full that we can't hope to complete every item on them. So what do we do? We multitask, juggling several things at once, trying to keep up by keeping busy.
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The best interpreter of the law is custom.
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When you're in a black group, you have to keep in mind you're not black. You just have to be sensitive. We have to be appreciative that the black nationalist struggle is a nationalist struggle.
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This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen.
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It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.
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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.
