Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

The question is being asked, 'Are we alone?' And though we now focus on that question we need to think beyond that to what if we're not alone? Then what becomes the next imperative question?

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• I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Think
  • Way
  • Part

• I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Good
  • Live
  • Experience

• I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Think
  • Perfect

• Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Painting
  • Movement
  • Analysis

• An improv team would have eight guys and one woman; that was still pretty standard. If you were a woman improviser, it was actually kind of an advantage because, if you were halfway decent, you'd get a lot more stage time.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Team

• Personally, love is very important for me. There are lots of ordinary things in life, so love should be extraordinary. I hope I achieve that.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Important
  • Love

• Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that once-crushing 'weight' has become, for the most part, a memory.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Memory
  • Thanks
  • Boredom

• If you take care of your character, your reputation will take care of itself.

  

  Alan Sugar
  • Character

• Who was Jesus anyway? After twenty centuries, there is not much anyone can agree on. The four canonical gospels don't measure up to modern standards of biographical writing, and - outside of this material - there is precious little contemporary evidence, apart from a few glancing mentions of Jesus or the movement centered on him.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Up
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  • Jesus

• I think I have an inherent modest level of stress, but I'm only super-aware of it when it goes away, when I'm on holiday and I think, 'Oh this feels pretty good.'

  

  Mark Ronson
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Stress

• I am filled with so much sincerity and gratitude to know where I came from and what I'm doing now.

  

  Antonio Brown
  • Gratitude

• My mum is great for keeping hold of old classics - pieces of clothing that never age and never go out of fashion. She also says, 'Make sure you always smile - it makes everything look better!'

  

  Amber Le Bon
  • Great
  • She
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• Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.

  

  Bob Lilly
  • Today
  • Free

• No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Truth
  • Happy

• Texas is really special in that we have our own music scene, our own music chart. It's almost a genre on its own. It feels like you can make a great living just touring the state because it's so big, but eventually, I wanted a new challenge.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Great
  • Music
  • Challenge

• I'd love to be a Giant for the rest of my career.

  

  Jason Pierre-Paul
  • Career
  • Rest

• I never, ever talk about writing to anyone at all.

  

  Bobbie Ann Mason
  • Writing

• Creating something that builds lasting value and changes the lives of millions of people requires forging a team that will work hard to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles, stand up to the pressures of fame and fortune, and stay true to the original vision long after others stop believing.

  

  Jay Samit
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Caste is a delicate issue. It's ubiquitous, and we are full of it. We should start to change things from individual level. But when you go to people and deny caste, they may not react favourably. I think if a decisive percentage of people, especially elites, start marrying out of their caste, we may see a casteless India in a generation's time.

  

  Pawan Kalyan
  • People
  • Time
  • May

• As long as there is communication, everything can be solved.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Communication
  • Solved

• A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat really doesn't need to know that everybody loves him.

  

  William Kunstler
  • Needs
  • Dog
  • Cat

• When you don't have a record label and you have been on your own as we have, you can look at all these other ways you can get in touch with other people and get music out there again.

  

  Andy Taylor Duran Duran
  • People
  • Music

• The question is being asked, 'Are we alone?' And though we now focus on that question we need to think beyond that to what if we're not alone? Then what becomes the next imperative question?

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Focus
  • Needs
  • Imperatives