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.

  

  Damian Loeb
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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.

  

  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.

  

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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.

  

  Becky G
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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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• The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.

  

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• I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often.

  

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• I do have electric guitars, because I've always believed, especially when I'm working in the studio with other bands as producer, that there should be a really nice Strat around.

  

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• The Question of sovereignty is often raised. I am one of those who believe that in a modern world one has to give up a great deal of sovereignty. I am prepared to give up sovereignty to the world, but not to a selected number of European countries. That is not giving up something for world security; it is giving something up to sectional interests.

  

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• It's like, what happened, I was always leading fashion, and then the grunge thing kind of came along. And because I've been so on top in the '80s you know, I, you know, what can I do? Suddenly go grunge?

  

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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.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • Ideas
  • Firsts