Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

You aren't an object. You're a process of some sort.

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• Before I had my child, animals were my life. I slept with four dogs in my bed.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Child
  • My Life

• Even if I'm gone all day, breakfast is the one meal I always cook for my kids. I make French toast, oatmeal, or an egg burrito.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Kids
  • Day
  • Breakfast

• I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds out always due to technical limitations - now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Play

• The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Sometimes
  • Spring
  • Prison

• We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the fundamental right of all people. All people must obtain these rights.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Believe
  • Freedom

• My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • School
  • May
  • Father

• Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Together
  • Future
  • Painting

• Most people, almost everyone knows of a teen mom. Teen pregnancy rates are growing, and we need to bring awareness to that.

  

  Madisen Beaty
  • People
  • Growing
  • Mom

• The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Lost

• I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Want
  • My Life

• I receive many letters from people hoping to research their own houses.

  

  Kate Williams
  • People
  • Research
  • Houses

• From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Bad
  • Fall
  • Observation

• It's a pleasure to contribute to the entrepreneurial community at USC.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Community
  • Pleasure
  • Usc

• The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • Destiny
  • Nation
  • Others

• If I am in Sweden, I try to get home to be with my children. I can do work after that from home.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Work
  • Children
  • Home

• I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.

  

  Little Richard
  • She
  • Think
  • Man

• At sixteen, I was a funny, skinny little thing, all eyelashes and legs. And then, suddenly people told me it was gorgeous. I thought they had gone mad.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • People
  • Funny
  • Mad

• When I first came out there was no such thing as Twitter or Facebook. And the blogs! Like, what is that?

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Firsts
  • Blogs

• I want to savor the aging process. As you get older, you trade your innocence for wisdom and the wisdom is your reward.

  

  Kathy Mattea
  • Wisdom
  • Process
  • I Want

• I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to say things. I'm a little exhausted by the process.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Process
  • Figure Out
  • Hard Time

• Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Job
  • Education
  • Process

• Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come from an academic background.

  

  Michael Hirst
  • Process
  • Really
  • Background

• I just find the people I want to work with and put it all together, and it's a lot of hard work, and all kinds of catastrophes happen, but I don't really get too much resistance. But when you make a movie, it seems like there's nothing but resistance. It's kind of a miracle that any movie ever gets made.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• You aren't an object. You're a process of some sort.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Process
  • Objects