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

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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
  • Voice
  • Speak

• 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

• 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

• Laughing brains are more absorbent.

  

  Alton Brown

• I love hanging out with skilled and motivated people.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • People
  • Motivated

• Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

  

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
  • Creativity

• I've had the privilege of having a lot of amazing people cook for me.

  

  Alex Guarnaschelli
  • People
  • Amazing

• Whether we are considering a toothache, a tumor, a relational bind, a technical problem, crime, or the economy, most individuals and most social systems, irrespective of their culture, gender, or ethnic background, will “naturally” choose or revert to chronic conditions of bearable pain rather than face the temporarily more intense anguish of acute conditions that are the gateway to becoming free.

  

  Edwin H. Friedman
  • Culture
  • Economy
  • Choose

• I've had a lot of highs in my life and a lot of lows, some pivotal experiences, and in ways I feel like I've already lived a couple of lives.

  

  Jim Coleman
  • Life
  • Couple

• I grew up in a school that had a big music program, and it was incredible. It's what I looked forward to during the day. I had chorus, strings, band.

  

  Alison Krauss
  • Up
  • Music
  • School

• 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