Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

I'm fascinated by hallucinations. I mean, to me that is the sina qua non that you're getting somewhere.

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• But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Live
  • Fear
  • Mean

• I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Mean
  • Actor
  • Along

• The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Want
  • Success
  • Me

• Wagner is contrapuntal in a philosophical way as well as a musical way. What I mean by that is that every tendency has its opposite, and you see that in the man himself. He's a metaphysical hermaphrodite - he embraces hard and soft, masculine and feminine.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Man
  • Mean
  • See

• What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Mean
  • Stuff
  • Sentimental

• I don't agree that everyone should agree with everyone's lifestyle. I think that some people aren't going to agree, but I think that when you're mean and when you ridicule people it's a sign of your own insecurities.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mean

• A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Free
  • Mean
  • Presses

• Just because Iran and Syria may recognize Assad's weaknesses doesn't necessarily mean that Assad recognizes his weaknesses.

  

  Barack Obama
  • May
  • Mean
  • Weakness

• We have to create that bridge for the future. And that means making sure we're paying attention to the wages of workers in countries, making sure that we're investing in their education and their skills.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Future
  • Education

• There was a time when I had the blues - I mean I really had it bad. I couldn't pay my light bill and I couldn't pay my rent and I really had the blues. But today I can pay my rent and I can pay the light bill and I still got the blues. So I must been born with 'em... That's my religion - the blues is my religion.

  

  Muddy Waters
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Today

• To create an album of love, I really had - I thought it was going to be easy, because I've always written love songs. But I thought if I really want to make a love album that contributes, that actually means something, I've got to go deep.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Song
  • Mean
  • Deep

• Influence means power, and I don't want that. Whatever happens, here we do our own thing and put it out there for people to take or leave. We're not doing anything to influence them.

  

  Dakis Joannou
  • People
  • Power
  • Mean

• Remember that when God calls us to leave behind something, it means He has something better in store for us. Allow Him to replace the old with the new today!

  

  Paige Omartian
  • God
  • Remember
  • Today

• Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless; this would be to overcome nature, to reshape God's handiwork. If God bade man annihilate the passions he has given him, God would bid him be and not be; He would contradict himself. He has never given such a foolish commandment, there is nothing like it written on the heart of man, and what God will have a man do, He does not leave to the words of another man. He speaks Himself; His words are written in the secret heart.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • God
  • Men
  • Heart

• The people are only tools, a means used by God. But they are not the sourse of help, aid, or salvation of any kind. Only God is. The people cannot even create the wing of a fly (Quran, 22:73).

  

  Yasmin Zarine Shahmir
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Up
  • Mean
  • Felt

• Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive. It is the means by which we declare our faith in God and qualify ourselves to receive the powers of heaven. Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge and power and God’s unlimited wisdom and omnipotence.

  

  L. Tom Perry
  • God
  • Power
  • Strong

• I think Missy Elliot is pretty creative, I mean at least trying to take it to the future.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Future

• Tom Hanks was really great [the 'Burbs']. The director, Joe Dante, was wonderful. We filmed it here during the summer, every day at Universal. Even the food was good - I mean it was junk but it was really good. The whole thing was like some ideal summer-school experience. It may not have been the best movie ever, but it was certainly the most fun.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Fun
  • Mean
  • Summer

• They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Write
  • Prefaces
  • Charlatan

• It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur to a state of order again; for the nature of mundane affairs not allowing them to continue in an even course, when they have arrived at their greatest perfection, they soon begin to decline.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Subject
  • Provinces
  • Vicissitudes

• I'm fascinated by hallucinations. I mean, to me that is the sina qua non that you're getting somewhere.

  

  Terence McKenna
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  • Fascinated
  • Hallucinations