Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
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I think I really benefited from going to college.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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I get told all the time that I'm a fashion icon now, but I don't really know what that means. I just get dressed.
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I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.
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My mum believes in me almost more than I believe in myself.
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Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.
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I really like guys who have confidence, but not the cocky over-the-top confidence.
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Everything is going to the beat - It's the beat generation, it be-at, it's the beat to keep, it's the beat of the heart, it's being beat and down in the world and like oldtime lowdown and like in ancient civilizations the slave boatmen rowing galleys to a beat and servants spinning pottery to a beat...
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It seems to me in the past it's been a good thing, as a writer, to have experiences I hadn't expected.
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The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.
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In times of biggest change, if you can keep your head and be the smartest, you may get a jump over everybody else. It's a challenge, but it's an opportunity, too.
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People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.
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The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.
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Unlike Descartes, we own and use our beliefs of the moment, even in the midst of philosophizing, until by what is vaguely called scientific method we change them here and there for the better. Within our own total evolving doctrine, we can judge truth as earnestly and absolutely as can be, subject to correction, but that goes without saying.
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It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.
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The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself.
