Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a very complex environment.

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• I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Color

• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Year

• Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Clothes
  • Dead
  • Suit

• You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Hero
  • Brave

• I think a great athlete transcends eras.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Great
  • Think
  • Athlete

• A lot of movies are made to make us dream.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Dream
  • Movies
  • Made

• I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.

  

  Young Thug
  • Want
  • Forever
  • Rap

• To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Work
  • Value
  • Lies

• Free-diving is all about being lean, being super-flexible, and having a good breath hold.

  

  Tanc Sade
  • Good
  • Free
  • Being

• Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them. You don't know what they're going to wreck and destroy.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Up
  • House
  • You

• I think plays have nothing to do with one's own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret - that's what drama is about!

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Pain

• I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Try

• I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Life
  • Up
  • Own

• I had a jazz trio, a rock n' roll band, and I played drums in junior high, high school, college, big bands, and I played timpani in the symphony. I am a drummer. It's the one instrument I actually play pretty well. It's just hard to carry on your back.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • School
  • High
  • Pretty

• I never want to pigeonhole myself or get typecast. I'm looking forward to my career and showing all of my range as an actress, and I'm looking at other mediums, too. I'm a theater actress first. And I cannot wait to return to the stage.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Career
  • Myself
  • Looking Forward

• The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for the younger ones also in the fact that Ireland is exceptional in its ability to make theater part of the national dialogue, and it reaches to all four corners of the country.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Writing
  • Country
  • English

• Sometimes you want a Part Two in your life.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Life
  • Want
  • Sometimes

• The public makes a hit.

  

  Dee Wallace

• People always come up to me and say, 'you should do standup.' It's nice to discover things about yourself. That keeps everything lively and fun.

  

  James Patterson
  • People
  • Up
  • Fun

• It's always amazing seeing the song-writing process. A song just starts off as just an idea or a story you want to tell. It keeps building and building when you add the lyrics, the instruments, the vocals until you finally reach the finished song other people can enjoy.

  

  Manika
  • People
  • Writing
  • Song

• My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?' Many of my stories and novels deal with psychotic states or drug-induced states by which I can present the concept of a multiverse rather than a universe. Music and sociology are themes in my novels, also radical political trends; in particular I've written about fascism and my fear of it.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Music
  • Reality
  • Political

• There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a very complex environment.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • People
  • Environment
  • Social