Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.

Terence McKenna

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• I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Years
  • Through
  • Over

• It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Up
  • Danger
  • Protection

• I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'

  

  Zendaya
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Like

• In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Want
  • Crazy
  • Look

• Well, first I have to make the team, of course.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Team
  • First
  • Well

• I entered the acting world at a time when there was a higher demand for Middle Eastern actors in the post-9/11 world, and yeah, the roles weren't great.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.

  

  Edgar Cayce
  • Opportunity
  • Use
  • Prepared

• I didn't choose acting. The universe did.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Universe
  • Acting
  • Choose

• Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Important
  • You
  • Film

• We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • World
  • Rules

• I have done a lot of work for affordable housing, rental housing. I understand the rap on me and other liberals is, oh, we push poor people into homeownership. And it's exactly the opposite of the case. We were trying to prevent those kinds of bad loans.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Work
  • Bad

• I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat is transferred through food.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Long
  • Food
  • Model

• If a woman feels anchored to a man's plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she's worried she's missing.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • May
  • She
  • Fun

• The same crime element that white people are scared of black people are scared of. While they waiting for legislation to pass, we next door to the killer. All them killers they let out, they're in that building. Just because we black, we get along with the killers? What is that? We need protection too.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • People
  • Black
  • Scared

• Come ordine era dato, il tutto avvenne,Che 'l consiglio del mal va raro invano.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• I devour books. But for the longest time, I refused to pay attention to genre or labels.

  

  Alison Tyler
  • Time
  • Attention

• From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.

  

  Bill Condon

• When people didn't really know who I was, and I would get on stage, they would be distracted by what I looked like, so I would have to dumb myself down, in a way, for people to feel safe to laugh.

  

  Anjelah Johnson
  • People
  • Dumb

• Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture.

  

  Leon Krier
  • Age
  • Culture

• There is no such thing as children’s literature.

  

  N. V. M. Gonzalez
  • Children
  • Literature

• Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Unique
  • Hard
  • Come

• As companies become bigger, the global environment more competitive, and the rate of disruptive technological innovation ever faster, the value to shareholders of attracting the best possible CEO increases correspondingly.

  

  Chrystia Freeland
  • Value
  • Environment
  • Innovation

• When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Art
  • Obligation
  • Dimensions