Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
Quotes to Explore
-
As historians, we spend days in archives, gazing at account books. We train would-be historians in the arts of deciphering letters and documents, early Latin, scribal handwriting, medieval French.
-
The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.
-
I've been a little bit Las Vegas and casino-obsessed. So, I love some trashy glamour... and I think nothing's trashier or more glamorous than a bit of a sheer number!
-
One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
-
The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.
-
It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.
-
When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country.
-
In 1984, I managed Walter Mondale's campaign for president. Mondale won the nomination after a bruising battle with Colorado Senator Gary Hart and Reverend Jesse Jackson.
-
There's so much competition for leisure time, more than ever.
-
And I think that, given the opportunity, somebody could really learn a lot just being around me and the girls because it's really nonstop, 24/7 brainstorming and creativity and just trying to get organized and really pack a lot into a day - being there nonstop with all engines blazing.
-
People will always make comparisons.
-
There's always been really interesting, diverse black voices talking and arguing and counterpointing.
-
The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.
-
'Prison Break' on Netflix has generated a whole new generation of viewers.
-
When I did 'Venice Dawn,' there were times where people would cry after listening to it.
-
I never looked at basketball as work. I always enjoyed it as my hobby. I loved it. Once that love is gone, and I'm tired of working out every day and doing all the stuff to get me ready for games, and I'm tired of lifting and conditioning and doing all that other stuff around it, and I'd rather stay in bed, then it's time to go.
-
I can draw and paint in many different styles, and use different mediums to create work.
-
Facebook is about sharing experiences that you've had. Foursquare is more about the present tense and the future tense.
-
Every day remind yourself of your own ability, of your good mind and affirm that you can make something really good out of your life.
-
You abilities are too infant-like for doing much alone.
-
The conservative media ecosystem - like the rest of us - has to recognize how critical, but also how fragile, credibility is in the Orwellian age of Donald Trump.
-
The claim of alternative practitioners to not treat disease labels but the whole patient...allows alternative practitioners to live in a fool's paradise of quackery where they believe themselves to be protected from any challenges and demands for evidence.
-
Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
