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.

  

  Barry Goldwater
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  • Life
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• I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Trying
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  • Difficult

• I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Always
  • System
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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.

  

  Francesca Annis
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• When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

  

  W. Clement Stone
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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.

  

  Callie Thorne
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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.

  

  Samantha Power
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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.

  

  Carli Lloyd
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  • Player
  • Never

• People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Power
  • Together

• 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.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • World
  • Music
  • Love

• All my life I have fought corruption.

  

  A. K. Antony
  • Life
  • My Life
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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.

  

  Edmund White
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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.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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  • Literature
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• I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
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  • Taken
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• My family are my friends.

  

  Becky G
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• Once the war of words begins, truth is the casualty.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
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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.

  

  Paige VanZant
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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.

  

  H. R. McMaster
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  • Lost
  • College

• Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied.

  

  Janis Ian
  • People

• Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.

  

  William James
  • World
  • Effort
  • Contribution

• Though many non-Native Americans have learned very little about us, over time we have had to learn everything about them. We watch their films, read their literature, worship in their churches, and attend their schools. Every third-grade student in the United States is presented with the concept of Europeans discovering America as a "New World" with fertile soil, abundant gifts of nature, and glorious mountains and rivers. Only the most enlightened teachers will explain that this world certainly wasn't new to the millions of indigenous people who already lived here when Columbus arrived.

  

  Wilma Mankiller
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  • World
  • Film

• My beloved dog defied treatment from the best and most expensive veterinarians, holistic practitioners, trainers, and animal communicators. He was simply beyond my ability to repair or control.

  

  Jon Katz
  • Control
  • Animal
  • Dog

• I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.

  

  Terence McKenna
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