Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

Skywalker is a direct translation of the word shaman out of the Tungusic, which is where Siberian shamanism comes from. So these heroes that are being instilled in the heart of the culture are shamanic heroes. They control a force which is bigger than everybody and holds the galaxy together.

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• The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Heart
  • Doctor
  • Satisfied

• I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Hero

• For fitness, I've just bought a watch which keeps a track of how many calories I burn, what's my heart rate, which is very fascinating.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Heart
  • Fitness
  • Burn

• My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts.

  

  Wayne Wonder
  • School
  • Together
  • Boy

• But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Music
  • Important
  • Culture

• 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.

  

  Ignazio Silone
  • Men
  • School
  • Together

• Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Women
  • Together
  • Education

• Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Beautiful

• Formally, I did my studies in the sciences, but I was very conscious that I was being deprived of culture. While studying neuroscience, I was running a rock-music festival and was able to use that as a platform to explore what it takes to produce art for 20,000 inebriated 20-somethings.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Music
  • Art
  • Culture

• While the angels, all pallid and wan,Uprising, unveiling, affirmThat the play is the tragedy, 'Man',And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Hero

• In half a lifetime, many Americans have seen their God dethroned, their heroes defiled, their culture polluted, their values assaulted, their country invaded, and themselves demonized as extremists and bigots for holding on to beliefs Americans have held for generations.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • God
  • Country
  • Culture

• The sound was essentially background sound, myself, and Carl, Dennis and Al Jardine, Mike was our lead singer. The four of us put our voices together. We had done it really beautifully. We had a beautiful blend. We really did.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Done
  • Together
  • Beautiful

• I will always be a New York girl at heart, but I am really liking the L.A. lifestyle.

  

  Aileen Quinn
  • Heart
  • Girl

• I think I'm going to put together a compilation under Disney's name of my songs that I've done for them - because I've done six or seven by now! The latest was for the Princess Diaries 2 soundtrack. So that's the next thing that's coming out.

  

  Christy Romano
  • Done
  • Together
  • Disney

• I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people have habits or customs or superstitions that show magic was once a whole lot more democratic.

  

  David Liss
  • People
  • Different
  • Culture

• If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Heart
  • Find
  • Succeeded

• I think we live a culture that's obsessed with people, you know, 'Celebrities are just like us!' Everything I do except my job is critically analyzed online.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • People
  • Live
  • Job

• The sense of discovery only comes when I'm making discoveries alongside the reader. It feels crucial for me to not know too much about how things will turn out. So I try to develop strong characters with recognizable desires and put them together with other characters and see what happens.

  

  Kevin Canty
  • Together
  • Strong

• A very tiny percentage of people with mental illness are also violent. We know this. The constant linking of the two together in national media is so misleading.

  

  Chirlane McCray
  • People
  • Together

• The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • People
  • Plant
  • Celebration

• In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?

  

  Humphry Davy
  • Energy
  • Knowledge
  • Property

• Skywalker is a direct translation of the word shaman out of the Tungusic, which is where Siberian shamanism comes from. So these heroes that are being instilled in the heart of the culture are shamanic heroes. They control a force which is bigger than everybody and holds the galaxy together.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Heart
  • Together
  • Culture