Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.

Terence McKenna

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• Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Money
  • Attention
  • Drama

• Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Earth
  • Hate

• Charter laws do something really important. They give educators the freedom and flexibility that they need to attain results. But we also have to invest a lot in the leadership pipeline to take advantage of that freedom and flexibility.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Important
  • Freedom
  • Leadership

• The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Important
  • Question
  • Study

• The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Like
  • Italian
  • Warm

• Quality Healthcare is a premier healthcare brand in Hong Kong and is the leading private healthcare provider there. We are believers in long-term growth prospects of the Asian healthcare space and the benefits of a world-class pan-Asian integrated healthcare delivery system.

  

  Malvinder Mohan Singh
  • World
  • Long
  • Space

• I remember shooting a show in Australia and I was having to leave and come home all the time. And I remember I was leaving for two months and I wept for like 12 hours on the plane because I wasn’t going to get to see him. So yes. I can relate to the young love thing. … But it was only four years - and not that many boyfriends ago.

  

  Maia Mitchell
  • Time
  • Home
  • Remember

• Your brother is still young enough to believe that the past still exists, he said. That the injustices within it await his remedy.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Brother

• I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • American
  • College
  • English

• I'm always showing pictures off. I have to be careful who I show them to because of who I am, obviously, but I'm a proud father.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Father
  • Proud

• You're going to hurt, yes. You're going to have tweaks and problems. But you're a football player; you can play through those.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Football
  • Player
  • Hurt

• The silver lining of the Trump presidency is it is an era of activism, and one where women really want to be heard.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • Women
  • Trump

• There's a vulnerability in music but you've also got to protect your sacred place and have a place you can still retire to that no one else knows about. So that's a thing I just try to balance.

  

  Kimbra Lee Johnson
  • Music
  • Balance
  • Vulnerability

• My job as an actor is to cover and expose in varying allowance that - so that the audience can peek through the window to the people I create.

  

  Lorraine Toussaint
  • People
  • Job

• I'm told I was born in Canada, but I was adopted, and I grew up in Maine and Massachusetts.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Up

• Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

  

  Ken Kesey
  • History

• I'm a huge Emile Zola fan, and when Bill Gallagher said he was writing a new character for 'The Paradise' and had me in mind for the role, I knew I wanted to play Tom Weston before I'd even read a word of the script.

  

  Ben Daniels
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Character

• Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.

  

  Charles Perrault
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• Though I have drawn my sword in the present generous struggle for the rights of men, yet I am not in arms as an American, nor am I in pursuit of riches. My fortune is liberal enough, having no wife nor family, and having lived long enough to know that riches cannot ensure happiness.

  

  John Paul Jones
  • Men
  • Long
  • Family

• Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Life
  • Age
  • Feeling

• You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • Struggle

• I guess God blessed me with a hard head, because I really didn't feel punches.

  

  Jake LaMotta
  • God
  • Blessed

• Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America. More specifically, Barack Obama is the president of a congenitally racist country, erected upon the plunder of life, liberty, labor, and land. This plunder has not been exclusive to black people. - Ta

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Life
  • Country

• There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Struggle
  • Angel
  • Crisis