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.
-
There's a bar in Edinburgh called 'CC Bloom's.' CC Bloom is the name of the character that Bette Midler played in Beaches. That is the gayest thing I have ever heard in my entire life. That place should just be called 'Fuck-Me-In-The-Ass Bar and Grill.'
-
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.
-
I grew up in the '90s and remember the lyrics back then were so abstract and open to interpretation. That always drove me crazy.
-
'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.
-
Nobody told David Clarke what to think, what to feel, what to say, what to believe in, who to marry, what kind of food to eat - you know that thing that the race hustlers like to say defines your blackness? But yet every time I look in the mirror in the morning, I see a black guy looking back at me.
-
I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on in mathematics that I don't understand, and I'd like to find out what it is.
-
The people that tell you what you enjoy is wrong, or come in your life and tell you what you're wearing is wrong are miserable because they focus on the things that they don't like.
-
Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think the classical training, more than anything, has provided me with longevity.
-
Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
