Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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Money? I lost all taste for it.
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There is a reason behind life. There is some connectivity between living beings. Whether you want to call that 'God' or 'The Force' or whatever word you use for it, I do believe in a spiritualized mechanism.
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I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!
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I visited England immediately after I finished writing 'The Marrying Season,' before any editing or revisions.
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It is a fact that no man improves much after the age of 60 and after 65, most suffer a really alarming decline. I could give some examples, but at the advice of my publisher will refrain from doing so.
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Credit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a slump.
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We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.
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Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, … I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.
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Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
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'No I'm not no loser, I'll see you in Hell.'
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As animation directors, you're the first one on the film; you're the last one off, and you get to learn from and touch every department throughout the whole journey. I don't know any other job in the world that's like that. I don't think live-action is like that. It's a very different sort of experience.
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I've been told that I wasn't Latino enough, which was code for 'street' enough.
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I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back end. I grew up with a lot of players who had very, very tough lives after the ball started bouncing for them. And that's why I'm going to continue to fight.
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I think for larger-scale entrepreneurship, it's true - for men and women - that people who already have capital tend to do better.
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I was a teacher. I also worked at Harlem Children's Zone. I moved back to Baltimore and opened up an after-school, out-of-school program on the west side and then worked in two public school districts, in Baltimore and Minneapolis.
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When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.
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The close-up of a face is as obscene as a sexual organ seen from up close. It is a sexual organ. The promiscuity of the detail, the zoom-in, takes on a sexual value. (p. 43)
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Your subconscious is your best friend
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You have to look at history as an evolution of society.
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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.
