Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

A global society is coming into being, a global society that is made out of information that was not intended to be ours, but is ours, by the mistaken invention of computers and the printing press, information is power, and information has spilled by the clumsy hands of the dominator culture so that the information is everywhere, never before has the situation been so fluid, we might be able to finally have a crack at this

Terence McKenna

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• I think there is no racism in this film industry. They are only in need of talent, though it takes time; but, if you are talented, you will get your due. I am thankful to be part of this industry.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Time
  • Racism
  • Thankful

• I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Crazy
  • Speak
  • Voice

• Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.

  

  Garry Moore
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Home

• When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Picture

• Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Life
  • Destiny
  • Regrets

• It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Me
  • Place
  • Heard

• When I started to record, I could sing in pitch, but that was maybe about it.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Sing
  • Started
  • Maybe

• There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Humanity
  • Adventure
  • Call

• 'Places to Go' is something that I would never normally write because I would usually be worried with what people would think about me.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • May
  • Power
  • Beliefs

• The Government has now resolved to enter upon an arms race, and the people will have to pay for their mistake in believing that it could be trusted to carry out a policy of peace. … This is a War Budget. We can look in the future for no advance in Social Legislation. All available resources are to be devoted to armaments.

  

  Clement Attlee
  • People
  • War
  • Future

• I'm a huge fan of 'The Vampire Chronicles,' both the Neil Jordan film and the books themselves.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Vampire

• See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.

  

  James Daly
  • Great
  • Business

• Animals are thinking, feeling creatures. They're sensitive.

  

  Loretta Swit
  • Thinking
  • Feeling

• It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was bandied about. I do not believe, however, that the word was used with the ferocity it was more recently or that it was in the Nixon years.

  

  Fred F. Fielding
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Political

• Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as washing yourself. It's something you're supposed to do. Now, you can't go around bragging, expecting to get props because you voted. That's stupid.

  

  Chuck D
  • Stupid

• Laughing brains are more absorbent.

  

  Alton Brown

• I have a good friend who's a very good printer. And he does a certain amount of printing for me. I do all the developing. If somebody's going to goof my film, I'd better do it. I don't want to get that mad at anybody else.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Film

• I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Culture
  • Morals
  • Girlfriends

• Hip hop has always been, for us, for artists who are pure to the craft - any place overseas, whether it's Australia, any place in Asia, Germany, Africa, it becomes something where you can still go and work. Hip hop is an import culture. We're spoiled by it here. It's homegrown.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Culture
  • Australia
  • Crafts

• If I am in London I like a quick get away to The Olde Bell in Hurley... It's nearby and no stress - great food and beautiful walks.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Food

• I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden

• A global society is coming into being, a global society that is made out of information that was not intended to be ours, but is ours, by the mistaken invention of computers and the printing press, information is power, and information has spilled by the clumsy hands of the dominator culture so that the information is everywhere, never before has the situation been so fluid, we might be able to finally have a crack at this

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Culture
  • Situation
  • Computer