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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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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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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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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Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.
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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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In academia in general, there's this push toward using comics as an educational tool.
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All very fine, Mary; but my old-fashioned common sense is better than your clever modern nonsense.
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Fluency is smooth, rapid, effortless use of language.
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The truest you can be is taking off those clothes.
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We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
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Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.
