Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.

Terence McKenna

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• An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Never
  • Drug
  • Down

• My father ran a corner drug store where he worked night and day, seven days a week, until he died of a stroke. He literally worked himself to death.

  

  R. T. Rybak
  • Father
  • Death
  • Night

• Penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against the possession of marijuana in private for personal use.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Drug
  • Marijuana

• Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.

  

  Bennie Thompson
  • Up
  • Education
  • Quality

• If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.

  

  Ken Kesey
  • Help
  • Drug

• We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation.

  

  Alex Campbell
  • Drug

• Most of the stuff that parades as drug education in this country is just rubbish with no foundation in evidence.

  

  Carl Hart
  • Country
  • Education
  • Drug

• The pharma industry is one of the few industries that comes up every year and brags about how much worse they got - like, now it costs $2 billion to make a drug, and it was a billion 5 years ago.

  

  Anne Wojcicki
  • Up
  • Drug

• Over the years, HIV/AIDS activists and their allies have been pioneers in creating new frontiers in the medical establishment. Through their efforts, the FDA drug approval procedures were reformed so promising new therapies could reach desperate patients quicker.

  

  David Mixner
  • Drug

• I've never had a drink of alcohol or any drug in my life.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Life
  • Drug
  • Alcohol

• Look at the problem of drug-resistant TB in the world. Look at HIV in the world. What's going to be required for everybody in the long run is the ability to do complex health interventions in poor settings.

  

  Jim Yong Kim
  • World
  • Long
  • Health

• My own view is that if you filled every member of the parliamentary Labour party with a truth drug and lashed them to a polygraph lie detector, very, very few of them would support foundation hospitals.

  

  Frank Dobson
  • Truth
  • Support
  • Party

• As a matter of policy from the beginning with our team, there have been three things we've said we won't draft a player: if they've been involved in domestic violence, drug abuse, or if they show lack of respect for authority.

  

  Bob McNair
  • Team
  • Respect
  • Player

• Here's where the insurance companies really fail us. They over-pay hospitals, specialists and drug companies and then raise premiums to cover the costs. Further, when they pay hospitals 115% of what it should cost to care for a patient, they are paying for inefficiency that can be dangerous.

  

  Alex Gibney
  • Drug
  • Insurance

• Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies.

  

  Jim Clyburn
  • Believe
  • Giving
  • Health

• Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Ambition
  • Drug

• Crackling Rosie make me smile. God, if it lasts for an hour that's alright, to set the world right. Find us a dream that don't ask no questions.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • World
  • God
  • Dream

• Animation is not just for children - it's also for adults who take drugs.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Children
  • Drug
  • Adults

• A lot of rappers want somebody to always sing on their records. If you can hold a note, they're gonna' ask you to come and be apart of their creativity. At that time, they were eager and on the streets selling drugs or in the studio making music. That was a big part of our lives were I grew up.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Up
  • Control
  • Collaboration

• For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Knowledge
  • Wonder

• There was only - spring itself, the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere; in the sky, in the swift clouds, in the pale sunshine, and in the warm high wind - rising suddenly, sinking suddenly, impulsive ... If I had been tossed down blindfold on that red prairie, I should have known that it was spring.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Spring
  • Sunshine
  • Restlessness

• The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.

  

  Cornelius Cardew AMM
  • Authority
  • Jumping
  • Improvisation

• The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Drug
  • Computer