Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

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

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

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Want
  • Those
  • Arty

• I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Want
  • Pride
  • Direction

• 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

• The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward.  To have done anything by which you earned money merely is to have been truly idle or worse.  If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Money
  • Done
  • May

• 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

• What would McCarthy, what would Nixon, what would Bill Clinton have done if they'd had Twitter?

  

  Jake Tapper
  • Done

• 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

• When I look back on what I've done, I think I'm drawn to obsession, perhaps.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • Done

• Peter Jackson's instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina.

  

  Christopher Lee

• In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.

  

  Pete Townshend The Who
  • Faith

• When my brother, Todd [Fisher], was born my father was already with Elizabeth [Taylor]. I was 19 or 20 when I first spent a block of time with him.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Father
  • Brother

• I have freckles; I don't like covering up too much. I like things dewy and natural, and I think that having moisture in your skin is really beautiful and youthful - sometimes that's more important than coverage.

  

  Banks
  • Up
  • Important
  • Think

• Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the efficient cause of the emotion, we can either love or hate it.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Pain
  • Pleasure
  • Emotion

• Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared and sold in packages ready for use. Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of it such, with such help as he can get, indeed, but not without stern labor of his own.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Truth
  • Help
  • Labor

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

  

  Terence McKenna