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.

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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

• 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

• We never made attempts to say we were anybody's role model or the be-all-end-all of what people should look up to. We have always just been very open about the fact that we have difficulties and we are messed-up people, just as our fans are.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • People
  • Up
  • Model

• I'm comfortable singing jazz. The only thing I was concerned about is that everybody, even in jazz, has their own style. To me, the queen of doodling was Ella Fitzgerald, and scatting is something I never thought I could do.

  

  Gladys Knight Gladys Knight & The Pips
  • Style
  • Singing

• Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.

  

  Alan Bullock
  • Work
  • Democracy

• However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Reality
  • Moment
  • Commitment

• I don't think there are many kids who sit around and want to be actors. I don't think there are many kids who want to sit around and want to be senators. But so many of us want to be athletes, so we're envious of them, and we put them up on that pedestal.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Up
  • Kids

• And to thy husband's will Thine shall submit; he over thee shall rule.

  

  John Milton
  • Rule
  • Submit
  • Thine

• 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