Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.

Terence McKenna

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• The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Approach

• A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

  

  Patricia Neal
  • Strong
  • Wonder
  • Positive

• Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Money
  • Why

• There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Culture

• HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.'

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Long
  • Fall
  • Start

• I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.

  

  Imelda May
  • World
  • Music
  • Mind

• Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Nature
  • Party
  • Justice

• When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • World
  • Television
  • Fair

• The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Mind
  • Book
  • Doing

• Iggy Pop, or should I say Iggy's people, had reached out to me saying he was a True Blood fan, and if any opportunities come up, to please keep Iggy in mind. We sent Iggy the demo of 'LB&R'. He loved it and said, 'Sign me up.'

  

  Gary Calamar
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Mind
  • Funny
  • Matter

• I love working and I love doing lots of things and a variety of things. It keeps your mind active... and you don't end up worrying about just the one thing. When I chew things over or analyze too much, that is when I can trip myself up.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Mind
  • End
  • Thing

• I don't like seeing myself on television. I don't like it.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Myself
  • Television
  • Seeing

• You don't have a soul; you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social security card, your body, or your mind. You are you.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Mind
  • Book
  • Soul

• I think Hillary Clinton could do whatever she puts her mind to. I really do. She's incredibly dedicated to public service, she is smart as a whip, and she's effective.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Mind
  • Smart
  • Effective

• My father is an actor, and I used to go on set to visit him. I saw the stories he was telling and said: 'That's what I want to do.' I was always in awe whenever I went to the movies or when I watched television.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Father
  • Want
  • Television

• I will never be a career actor, I don't think. I don't feel that I have the skill set to jump into it that way, although I wouldn't mind giving it a try.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Career

• But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or that or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it's not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that, and watch him (her husband, former president George H. W. Bush) suffer?

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Beautiful

• It blows my mind - whenever you're stuck in one place, you think this is how the world is, and then you walk out and see there's so many layers to everything.

  

  Eiza Gonzalez
  • World
  • Mind

• Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.

  

  Bryan Cranston
  • People
  • Career
  • Luck

• I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the President of the United States!

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Star

• The surest way to bring goodness to yourself is to make it your intention to do good for somebody else.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Good
  • Goodness
  • Intention

• There's a bit less elbow room and latitude to take it somewhere else, at least at festivals. In the club you can do whatever you want but at festivals, especially Ultra, nowadays the crowd wants to hear our songs.

  

  Alain Macklovitch

• Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Television
  • Drug