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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Whatever their age, most men have never received true fathering.
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Phillip Noyce was not just good to me but an inspiration to me.
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When you are Uber, what we care about is the customer experience of getting somebody safely, cheaply, efficiently and reliably from where they are to where they want to go.
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Be black, shine, aim high.
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I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
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Well, I actually grew up in the sixties. I feel very lucky, actually, that that was my slice of time that I was dealt. Let's remember that the real motivation in the sixties, and even in the fifties, was the Cold War.
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As soon as you go into merchandising, everyone nods sagely and says, 'Ah, now we know why you are doing it.'
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He stole my music but he gave me my name.
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The fundamental values of a true community are elsewhere: in love, poetry, disinterested thought, the free use of the imagination, the pursuit of non-utilitarian activities, the production of non-profitmaking goods, the employment of non-consumable wealth - here are the sustaining values of a living culture.
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Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.
