Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

I believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them.

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• I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • People
  • House
  • Know

• The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Money
  • Space
  • Ideas

• The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Country
  • Future
  • More

• It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Strong
  • Acting
  • Weak

• I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Like
  • Thing
  • Favorite

• Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Learning
  • Smart
  • Difference

• I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • People
  • Important
  • Animals

• A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Book
  • Ignore

• The patchwork political landscape of the Arab world - the client monarchies, degenerated nationalist dictatorships, and the imperial petrol stations known as the Gulf states - was the outcome of an intensive experience of Anglo-French colonialism.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Experience
  • Political

• After 9/11, I changed a lot of the ways I viewed the world. I realized my comedy and my politics and my view of the world did not match. I had to start writing from my heart.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • World
  • Writing
  • Heart

• The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • People
  • Real
  • Truth

• Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.

  

  Flume
  • Writing
  • Focus
  • Awesome

• I grew up in New York.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Fan
  • Big
  • Hall

• Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

  

  Edmund Leach
  • Men
  • Food
  • Cook

• I met a woman who went through a very difficult personal crisis, and she was really bed-ridden for a long time, and 'Friends' got her through. I met a woman who had a brain injury while living in Europe, and 'Friends' got her through.

  

  Maggie Wheeler
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Brain

• 'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously about surviving with other people.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • People
  • Work
  • Alone

• Now here I was, half Jane Wyman, half Shirley Temple, and people began to stop me in the street and say, 'Don't worry, Barbara, it's all right, you won't lose your job.' It was really very touching.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Job
  • Stop

• The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Job

• One of the hardest things about my job is that there kind of is no one rulebook that applies to all situations.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Job
  • Applies
  • Rulebook

• New York is who I am.

  

  Lea Michele

• I believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them.

  

  Terence McKenna
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