Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.

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• When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Light
  • Thought
  • Wall

• Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Me
  • Kid
  • Singer

• It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Up
  • Work
  • Single

• Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Real
  • motivation
  • Obsession

• When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Player
  • Baseball
  • Wanted

• The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Age
  • Youth
  • Arrogance

• Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly termed par excellence the exact sciences, may then, with the fair white wings of imagination, hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Live
  • May
  • Hope

• I've had a very full and lovely career so far, and I can't honestly say that I've ever really found myself in a man's world, struggling for an identity or trying to prove something.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • World
  • Trying
  • Career

• The government will always tell you that it wants low inflation. The real issue is the horizon over which to bring inflation down.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Real
  • Government
  • Down

• The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • People
  • Time
  • Respect

• I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Interesting
  • Myself
  • Find

• When I was a kid I used to scoot under the table, and whenever company would come around you know or my sisters or parents would tell me, go under the table and I'd do it because it was entertainment for the family or aunts or whatever. And one time at the Paramount when I first did it, you know, Brooklyn Paramount, I did it in the act during an instrumental and it got a big ovation and so I coined it as one of the things I should do in the act. And since I've been doing it.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Time
  • Family
  • Kids

• I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Believe
  • Tree
  • Granted

• Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.

  

  William Cowper
  • Time
  • Fit
  • Insatiable

• Growing up, I didn't know anything about comedy and didn't know anything about comedians or what standup was. I grew up in the projects with no dream of anything, it was in my formatting when i got older and started talking to my friends about how I felt, they would be like, "dude, that's funny." Then one day my friend was like, "Dude, you don't understand how funny you are, you need to do standup"!

  

  Carlos Mencia
  • Dream
  • Growing
  • Needs

• And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.

  

  Terence McKenna
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