Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.
-
I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York.
-
New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.
-
The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.
-
I think a culture can really be elevated through the arts, and it's always a dream come true when I come across roles that enable me to fuse my love of storytelling with my passion for activism and raising social awareness.
-
In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.
-
There isn't a lot written about the motorcycle culture.
-
The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
-
Latinos been a part of hip-hop culture and every other culture; we've been influential in every aspect of life.
-
From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an interesting a career, a high-status mate, the desirable handbag or vacation, the perfect family size, and a definitionally fruitless quest for 'perfection.'
-
I grew up in Jerusalem and went to school here. I studied at the Hebrew University - mostly Islam and Arabic: Arab literature, Arab poetry and culture, because I felt like we are living in this region, in the Middle East, and we are not alone: There are nations here whose culture is Arab.
-
On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
-
From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.
-
The population is in a constant state of enforced dislocation. So let us hope that a totally new culture will come out of this.
-
The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.
-
Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.
-
This is a culture filled with perfect images of women and perfect images of movie actresses, and most people can't live up to them.
-
The U.K. is outward-looking, trade-oriented, growth-oriented, and we do not have enough of that storyline, that tradition, that culture within the European Union.
-
Music was so important to the culture when I was growing up in the Sixties and Seventies. We just expected that Bob Dylan was going to make a great record, and it was normal. It was like, 'Okay, here's another great record by Bob Dylan; here's another great record by Led Zeppelin.'
-
I'm not an art director; I'm just not. I've always been somebody who has a sensibility that I hope is the same sensibility of others.
-
Walking is my hobby, and I'm lucky that I live right on the edge of Hampstead Heath.
-
Around four o’clock, when our bosses were having tea, the forewoman bumped me with her bony hip. This was a sign that she would take over for fifteen minutes while I went on a break. Every day she gave one of us a break like that. There was no more “reason” for her kindness than for the cruelty of the camp commander who had slapped Trude. It was the individuals who made their own rules in this situation. No one forced them to behave in an unkind manner. The opportunity to act decently toward us was always available to them. Only the tiniest number of them ever used it.
-
Sometimes, thinking on your feet can be the most creative. Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you. Some of the most successful shows come out of shoestring invention.
-
Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
