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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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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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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When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.
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Don't let people talk you into what they think is you.
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But definitely, when a decision is taken, or when you are trying to oppose a decision, you are in a weaker position than the member states, because they know more about the situation than you. We gave information, but they never gave us any information.
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On an independent film where you're working with just a handful of people, you don't have to explain anything because no one cares. You can do whatever you want. There's no one there to tell you not to do it.
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Ninety percent of my ideas come to me either when I'm reading or watching a show.
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For hard it is to keep from being King When it's in you and in the situation.
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A rock band is a mysterious thing. Somehow, every once in a while, a few individuals bump into one another, and they look exactly right together and share a focus and an aspiration and the right balance of musical similarities and differences.
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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.
