Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

In other words, all these things you might cling to, Catholicism, democratic ideals, Hasidism, Marxism, Freudianism, all of these things are exposed through use of psychedelics as simply quaint cultural artifacts, painted masks and rattles assembled by people of good intent but clearly not great grasp of the situation.

Terence McKenna

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• The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Situation
  • Worst
  • Lead

• It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Story

• I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Kind
  • Situation
  • Just

• It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Job
  • Military
  • Democratic

• There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable situation in our 21st century America.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • America
  • Know
  • Situation

• A zombie apocalypse isn't the most jovial situation.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Situation
  • Most
  • Zombie

• Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.

  

  Rand Beers
  • Up
  • Situation
  • Dreaming

• My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Giving
  • Way
  • Situation

• For me, I've been known as a very well-rounded fighter, and I think that's really important, that you're well rounded and comfortable in every situation that a fight can go. A lot of people focus on just one discipline, and when they get out of that, they're in a difficult position.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Important
  • Fight

• When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • People
  • High
  • Change

• Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Television
  • Democratic

• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Man
  • Tell

• The best situation is where they cast you and then they trust you.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Best
  • Trust
  • Situation

• You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Real
  • Age
  • Passion

• Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he fell back on an old habit of looking ahead to the next defeat.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Habit
  • Situation
  • Defeat

• Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you're a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation - that people's families and their young kids are being affected.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • People
  • Kids
  • Reality

• Headlines from the avian flu situation continue to weigh on overall consumer sentiment towards chicken in China.

  

  Larry Miller
  • Situation
  • Flu
  • Headlines

• It's something we're trying to gain information about and letting them talk and visit and seeing what situations may be out there. And we're doing the same thing. We'll see if there's a fit. It has to make sense for us and make sense for both sides.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Trying
  • May
  • Team

• The situation is very serious, there has been a clear abuse of human rights, a lack of democracy and a lack of openness.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Democracy
  • Serious
  • Situation

• What can I learn from this? What will I do next time I'm in this situation?

  

  Carol S. Dweck
  • Situation

• The study of asana is not about mastering posture.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Study
  • Posture
  • Asana

• You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage. Imagine how happy I felt when I got relief from bladder pressure. How long did that happiness last?

  

  Fritz Perls
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?

  

  Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Men
  • Understand
  • Retiring

• In other words, all these things you might cling to, Catholicism, democratic ideals, Hasidism, Marxism, Freudianism, all of these things are exposed through use of psychedelics as simply quaint cultural artifacts, painted masks and rattles assembled by people of good intent but clearly not great grasp of the situation.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Situation
  • Democratic
  • Mask