Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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A brief short story may require only a few paragraphs after the climax. On the other hand, in his massive novel 'The World According to Garp,' John Irving's denouement consisted of 10 separate sections, each devoted to an individual character's fate and each almost a story in itself.
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If you say you are the Safe Food Foundation, that means you're implying that your food is safer or that every other bit of food that we're eating is not safe. If they were a really honest foundation, they would call themselves the anti-GM foundation.
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If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.'
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I was at a book convention, in a cab. On one side of me was Arthur Schlesinger; on the other side was William Manchester - real heavyweights. All they were doing was asking me about Charles Manson. The only thing that enables me not to be bored is the people talking about it - they're so interested.
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Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
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I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.
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For me, it is important to pick up characters which I can relate to. Or I recall an incident in my life or tap into my innermost emotions and try to bring that reality on to the screen.
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I love the Museum of the Moving Image, and I like the idea of bringing artifacts of the cinema into a museum.
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We are a democracy, and we get the leaders we deserve because we elect them.
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I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company.
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I love moving. I love new houses. I'm always looking for somewhere else.
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My struggle led to the reunification of Germany and the creation of the state of Europe. We destroyed the borders; globalisation is on the horizon.
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I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
Strong communities are built around local, real food. Food we trust to nourish our bodies, the farmer and planet.
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When I was growing up, I wanted to be my half-sister Lucy. She was 14 years older than me and was impossibly glamorous. I grew up in awe of her.
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Individuals whose asylum claims have been accepted have gone on to become professors, soldiers in our military, artists, and more.
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I find it significant that, even though contemporary philosophy tends towards forms of determinism, in the wider culture people are deeply into naming, shaming and blaming each other. So we haven't lost that sense of conscience.
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Strength will rise as we wait upon the Lord.
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I believe that a lot of progress has been achieved to address gender inequality: We have moved from a time where women in the US could not apply for credit card without their husband's signature to a time where women are the owners of their businesses.
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Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.
