Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
People are, in the confines of their own apartments, becoming Magellans of the interior world and reaching out to this alien thing and beginning to map it and bring back stories that can only be compared to the kind of stories that the chroniclers of the New World brought back to Spain at the close of the 15th century.
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Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
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I've been disappointed by so many movie stars that I've seen, and they go out and they don't do it up, you know. And they don't - I just get so disappointed.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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I have dangerous bones in my body.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
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Kids are very cruel to each other.
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I used to hate stilettos. It took me a lot of time to understand how to walk in them and look graceful. And eventually, you realise their importance.
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I believe in music because it has the power of change.
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We are very lucky to work in fashion and not work in a hospital or something where the biggest deal we come across is perhaps the length of a skirt.
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When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its detailed plans for the coming years? That could not happen before, since German governments planned war and conquest.
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I think I look great in green, and I'm going to start wearing more green.
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If you are an outsider looking at India, learn to filter out both the irrational exuberance and the excessive pessimism. We're subject to both. You will become manic-depressive if you follow our moods.
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It's hard to explain to my parents what's going on. You can't compare Hollywood with Cuba. I didn't even know I could dream this.
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When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.
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We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.
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Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.
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People are, in the confines of their own apartments, becoming Magellans of the interior world and reaching out to this alien thing and beginning to map it and bring back stories that can only be compared to the kind of stories that the chroniclers of the New World brought back to Spain at the close of the 15th century.
