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

• Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • World
  • Man
  • Comedy

• You either make dust or eat dust.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Eat
  • Either

• There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Age
  • Sex
  • Better

• 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

• My job is to come up with something that you like and you agree with that you would play wholeheartedly. If we disagree, I may not be doing my job correctly.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Up
  • May
  • Job

• 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

• I see myself as a mascot for the kids who get beat down and don't feel like they belong.

  

  Jamie Campbell Bower
  • Kids

• I wept that all must die -'Yet Love,' I cried, 'doth live, and conquer death -'And Time passed by,And breathed on Love, and killed it with his breathEre Death was nigh.More bitter far than allIt was to know that Love could change and die -Hush! for the ages call'The Love of God lives through eternity,And conquers all!'

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter
  • Time
  • God
  • Live

• I live in Greenwich Village in New York City, but I rarely write at home, where there's too much else to do.

  

  Chris Pavone
  • Live
  • Home
  • City

• 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