Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.

Terence McKenna

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• I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Person
  • Failures
  • Negatives

• From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • England
  • Only
  • Spoke

• With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.

  

  Cara Buono
  • People
  • Time
  • Like

• Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Long
  • Done
  • Business

• I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.

  

  Imelda May
  • Work
  • Play
  • Language

• Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Man
  • Freedom

• If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Children
  • Think
  • Parenting

• We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Movie
  • Free
  • Pay

• My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.

  

  T-Pain
  • Bad
  • You
  • Me

• I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Live
  • Money
  • Man

• Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Die

• Raindrops keep fallin' on my headAnd just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bedNothin' seems to fit

  

  Hal David
  • Guy

• When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• : No comment, since this is still hovering (see Larry's reply).Flutter, flutter.

  

  Larry Wall

• It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a single cell so long ago myself that I have no memory at all of that stage in my life.

  

  Lewis Thomas
  • Life
  • Long
  • Single

• I had a lot of self-confidence.

  

  Bowie Kuhn
  • Confidence

• A lot of people might sit back and watch Dominick Cruz doing his footwork, and say, 'Oh, Dominick Cruz just dancing around, and he runs away.' It's a totally different atmosphere until you get in there, and you actually experience it.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • People
  • Different
  • Experience

• Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.

  

  James S. Coleman
  • Different
  • Children
  • Family

• I don't know how to explain it, but when you're working on something constantly, and you're digging in deep, things kind of fall in, and you grab them, and you're like, 'That one!' and 'That thing!' and it starts to build something right.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Fall
  • Deep

• It's hard to find rap that I love, you know. I'm one of those rapping a** rappers, but I just fall into a different category because I'm giving the people what they want.

  

  Eskeerdo
  • Different
  • Fall
  • Rap

• A Las Vegas show is all-round entertainment. Which means there's some singing, some dancing, some magic, some drama - everything is rolled into that one performance.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Singing
  • Drama
  • Magic

• I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'

  

  Katherine Dunham
  • She
  • Words
  • Tombstone

• A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Reality
  • Fall
  • Teaching