Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

And I don't mean this metaphorically. I want to be taken seriously as proposing that the ennui of modernity is the consequence of a disruptive symbiotic relationship between ourselves and vegetable nature.

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• We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely not. The city has been completely taken over by the rich.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Growing
  • City

• The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Time
  • American
  • History

• My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.

  

  Ted Olson
  • World
  • Wife
  • Taken

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

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Live
  • Fear
  • Mean

• Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • People
  • Government
  • Taken

• Combine that with the fact that we only had one week to get everything taken care of and to get to know one another, whereas most shows get two weeks. It looked like we would never have a chance.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Taken
  • Care
  • Chance

• I believe the Obama administration, from the president on down, has taken a very weak position regarding granting Palestine statehood at the United Nations.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Believe
  • Taken
  • Down

• Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Freedom
  • Mean
  • Journalism

• Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Taken
  • Positive
  • Growth

• There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Money
  • Band
  • Best

• Akshay Kumar is a senior in the industry, and I consider myself lucky to be working with him. Each film of his opens to a packed house. Today, a film will sell only if you have a story. The audience is smart and won't be taken for a ride. And I'm confident about my movies.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Today
  • House
  • Myself

• I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Movie
  • Play
  • Taken

• Ancient, woman-centered words and beliefs never, like, fall off the planet. Having long done taken on a life of their own, they - like womankind - evolve, and survive. Chameleon style.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Life
  • Long
  • Done

• The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s and '70s. It would have been taken off the air. It is beamed into people's living rooms on Sunday afternoons, with children watching.

  

  Damon Hill
  • People
  • Children
  • Today

• I schooled in Himachal Pradesh. I had taken up science and, initially, wanted to become a doctor. There are few career options for students of science though, so I shifted to Delhi and decided to try theater instead.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Up
  • Career
  • Science

• Many heroic actions and chivalrous adventures are related of me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • World
  • Great
  • Taken

• Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Taken
  • Dog

• In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a tempest upon an unknown island, the inhabitants of which were in trouble to find their king, who was lost; and having a strong resemblance both in form and face to this king, he was taken for him, and acknowledged in this capacity by all the people.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • People
  • Real
  • Strong

• For as long as anyone can remember, reliable, cheap electricity has been taken for granted in the United States.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Taken

• And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?...You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?...Y-yes, but, you are in fact... human?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Girl
  • Mean
  • Daughter

• It's spooky to look at yourself, because you are never quite what you think you are. And you are never as good looking as the person you are acting with, or something like that. So I learned to stay away from it because it was giving me more negative feelings than positive ones.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Giving
  • Feelings
  • Acting

• I follow dancers like Jennifer Lopez and Beyonce, as they are in my zone, but when it comes to Indian dancing, I am a huge Madhuri Dixit fan.

  

  Disha Patani

• And I don't mean this metaphorically. I want to be taken seriously as proposing that the ennui of modernity is the consequence of a disruptive symbiotic relationship between ourselves and vegetable nature.

  

  Terence McKenna
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