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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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
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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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Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
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The most intense joy, lies not in the having, but in the desire, Delight that never fades, bliss that is eternal, Is only your, when what you most desire, is just out of reach...Anthony Hopkins, from the movie Shadowlands, where he plays C.S. Lewis
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I don't want my husband to push me around in a wheelchair. I don't want someone to lead me around because I'm blind.
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She is trying to control me with fear, because she cannot control me any other way. My eyes open wide. They burn as if they are on fire—no, as if they are made of fire. Eyes are the window to the soul.
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When women got the vote, they did not redefine voting. When African-Americans got the right to sit at a lunch counter alongside white people, they did not redefine eating out. They were simply invited to the table. That is all we want to do; we have no desire to change marriage. We want to be entitled to not only the same privileges but the same responsibilities as straight people.
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Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.
