Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.
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Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I really just concentrated on acting.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.
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If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.
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Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.
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I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.
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My family are my friends.
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Once the war of words begins, truth is the casualty.
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I try to eat healthy for the most part. When I cut weight, I cut pretty much everything out. I don't have protein when I cut weight other than what I might get from something like chicken breast. So I don't eat any extra protein, just because I'm trying to get the weight off. That's the only real diet I have.
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The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the 'New York Times' or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.
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With learning lines, before I had Alfie, I'd put it off and think, 'Oh, I'll just have a glass of wine and then do it later,' but when you've finally got a child to bed and you know you've only got an hour, then you achieve so much.
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The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul.
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The Americans have always been more open to my ideas. In fact, I could earn a living in America just by lecturing. One of my brightest audiences, incidentally, were the prisoners in a Philadelphia gaol - brighter than my students at university.
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They successfully combined piracy and puritanism, which aren't so unlike when you come right down to it. Both had a strong dislike for opposition and both had a roving eye for other people's property.
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I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.
