Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

How do we fight back? By creating art.

Terence McKenna

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• The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Change

• I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Action
  • Kind
  • Looking

• There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.

  

  Xenophon
  • May
  • Small
  • Best

• I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Long
  • Hair
  • Look

• Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Up
  • Women
  • Children

• I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • Want
  • Fear

• I believe in breakfast. It's the one meal that my kids usually eat without a fuss, so that's huge. As for myself, I can't function without it, and I see it as a great way to get some healthy greens in, some coffee, and on a good day, maybe even some news of the world via the newspaper.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• I can tell you who I'd like to work with as far as rock legends. Definitely Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. Of course Linkin Park. Actually, I already worked with Travis Barker on a couple of things. Gotta let the drummer get some. Possibly Paramore, Hayley Williams.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Work
  • Rock
  • Couple

• I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Believe
  • Politics
  • Any

• I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

  

  Ira Levin
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• On his bold visage middle ageHad slightly pressed its signet sage,Yet had not quenched the open truthAnd fiery vehemence of youth;Forward and frolic glee was there,The will to do, the soul to dare,The sparkling glance, soon blown to fire,Of hasty love or headlong ire.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Soul
  • Fire
  • Bold

• You know the day destroys the night, Night divides the day, Tried to run - Tried to hide - Break on through to the other side!

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Night

• Canada has for many years been a beacon to the rest of the world for its commitment to pluralism and for its support for the multicultural richness and diversity of its peoples

  

  Aga Khan IV
  • World
  • Support
  • Rest

• It's good to be sent back to the underground. There's always a good side to bad things and the good side to this is that at least everyone has to go back down.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash
  • Good
  • Bad

• Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated – unfairly so, in my opinion.

  

  Conrad Black
  • Opinion
  • Greed

• When someone says, 'Shut up, farmer,' it hurts. It's difficult to explain, but it hurts.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • Up
  • Farmer

• Marketing is not bragging, and touting one's wares is not evil. The baker in the medieval town square must holler, 'Fresh rolls!' if he hopes to feed the townfolk.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Evil
  • Marketing

• Actually, a lot of my influences were horn players. I really liked Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane and Miles Davis - people like that. My dad had a lot of those records. So when I started playing jazz primarily, it wasn't jazz guitar that I was listening to.

  

  Mary Halvorson
  • People
  • Dad
  • Listening

• There are a lot of artists that I love, and I think they're really talented, and they're good dancers as well. I've always wished that I could combine that.

  

  Agnetha Faltskog
  • Good

• I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.

  

  Bryan Clay
  • Singing
  • Driving

• Make haste cautiously.

  

  Augustus
  • Haste

• It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.

  

  Carolyn Heilbrun
  • World
  • Happy
  • Hard

• Will Smith is the most successful money-making movie star on planet Earth, in terms of just how many people have gone to see his films, so Will is a guy who gets movies made.

  

  Peter Landesman
  • People
  • Money
  • Movie

• How do we fight back? By creating art.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Life
  • Art
  • inspirational