Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.

Terence McKenna

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• I didn't want to be one of those arty nutcases.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Want
  • Those
  • Arty

• I've always been interested in the office. I was a secretary a long time ago, and I've always been into paperwork. My first secretarial job was 1965 or 1966.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Time
  • Long
  • Job

• I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Great
  • Game
  • Sport

• From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Work
  • Trust
  • Beginning

• Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a man may rightfully be wiser today than he was yesterday - that he may rightfully change when he finds himself wrong. But can we, for that reason, run ahead, and infer that he will make any particular change, of which he, himself, has given no intimation?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • Today

• Democracy as a system of government may indeed be unprecedented in Afghanistan, but democracy as a way of life, a set of principles and values, is deeply embedded in our society.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Life
  • May
  • Society

• Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Faith
  • Knowledge

• I'm most passionate about personalization. I firmly believe that personalized experiences with brands will most drive loyalty and relevance for customers in the future.

  

  Katrina Lake
  • Believe
  • Future
  • Loyalty

• If you put out quality music, you're always going to be in a good place.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Good
  • Music
  • Quality

• Eventually though, I'd like to have my own production company. Then I could create great opportunities not only for myself, but for other actors as well.

  

  Mario Lopez
  • Great

• I think Rudimental was a massive part of my life and such a great place and people and learning curve to be a part of.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• My style is definitely schizophrenic; it does change from day to day a lot. It depends on my mood: sometimes I'll be going through a girly, childlike stage and wear a pretty lace dress with a bow in my hair. Then sometimes I'll be moody and just wear black.

  

  Amber Le Bon
  • Pretty
  • Black
  • Style

• Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.

  

  Bruce Babbitt
  • Life

• My cousin owns restaurants, and I used to work in his restaurants with his chef. I've always liked food, and I've always been interested in cooking and stuff like that.

  

  Luke Pasqualino
  • Work
  • Food
  • Cooking

• In television, we are fortunate because we get to try a lot of things; we get to take a lot of shots. It gives us a great opportunity to tell many different stories from diverse points of view.

  

  Channing Dungey
  • Great
  • Different
  • Opportunity

• Songwriting is a big deal to me.

  

  Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band

• My dad was always taking photos of us at home, and even on set - he'd bring us along and stick us in the photos in the background. It was almost the beginning of acting for me, like, 'Hey, you go over there and play basketball in the background, and don't even think about the camera.'

  

  Ansel Elgort
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Beginning

• People do not realize this, but my drug addiction was actually a short span of time. It was only for two years.

  

  Corey Feldman
  • People
  • Span
  • Drug Addiction

• And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to the regular administration and free course of justice in the courts of law; next to the right of petitioning the king and parliament for redress of grievances; and, lastly, to the right of having and using arms for self preservation and defense.

  

  William Blackstone
  • Justice
  • Individual
  • Grievance

• But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.

  

  John Milton
  • Melancholy
  • Goddess
  • Sage

• Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Fear

• I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Poverty
  • Development
  • Bullish

• LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.

  

  Terence McKenna