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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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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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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Equal pay for equal work continues to be seen as applying to equal pay for men and women in the same occupation, while the larger point of continuing relevance in our day is that some occupations have depressed wages because women are the chief employee. The former is a pattern of sex discrimination, the latter of institutionalized sexism.
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What we like about women is sensuality, wildness, hormones. Women who make a song and dance about their intuition.
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And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
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The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.
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It was a great game if you don't care who won. I cared.
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What task could be more agreeable than to tell of the benefits conferred on us by our ancestors, so that you may get to know the achievements of those from whom you have received both the basis of your beliefs and the inspiration to conduct your life properly.
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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.
