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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I like looking at the characters. Seeing them always brings up some voice or attitude. I am much more visual, and that works so much better than having someone tell me what the character is all about.
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I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.
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Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, John Brandi's poems reveal that he remains an extraordinary profound poet of prayer and praise. His is the most honorable and heroic of ambitions - to dress our broken world in the clothes of language, trust, and hope.
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In many ways, not fitting in has been a comedic asset and a comedic resource.
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In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work
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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.
