Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights - or a leap to an entirely different level. We've taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.

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• You either make dust or eat dust.

  

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

• I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Single

• Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Respect
  • New
  • Greatest

• I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Faithful
  • Sinner
  • Despised

• The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • Relationship
  • Grow
  • Harmony

• Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Heart
  • Doubt
  • Paris

• There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.

  

  Isaac Goldberg
  • World
  • Stage
  • Which

• I had that hunger to work and keep growing. So I started to cut hair. When I started getting better, I got my own barbershop. I had a lot of clients in my hometown, so I wouldn't stop cutting hair. That's why I think I have such discipline in my job because I've always been very responsible.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Work
  • Why
  • Job

• It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Men
  • Girl
  • Woman

• What separates sports from entrepreneurism, however, is that in business we constantly have to overcome undefined and unpredictable challenges. Athletes train for specific events and conditions, whereas entrepreneurs generally have little idea what they will encounter along the way.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Business
  • Sports
  • Challenges

• I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Difficult

• Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long pieces hang in the front. I'd also wear really dark eyeliner and bright pink eyeshadow. For some reason, my friends and I thought it was really fashionable to wear a short tie with our uniforms.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Long
  • School
  • Friends

• Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

  

  Tacitus
  • Good
  • Present
  • Old

• There's been a progression in my sound.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Sound
  • Been
  • Progression

• It was really great to also see the response that people were having to 'Treme' 'cause you're in a vacuum when you're on a TV show. You see the response online, you read about it and all of that, but actually to be live and have that many thousands of fans come out, it's really wonderful.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Great
  • Live

• An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.

  

  Oscar Levant

• Foucault, like David Letterman, made smirking glibness an art form.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art

• Just because the only way you can maintain control over your bodily passions is to sit straight in your chair, knees together, hands delicately arranged in our lap, fingers tightly intertwined, does not mean that I am required to do the same.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Together
  • Control

• In the old parts of Nice, the family tables are out in the cobbled streets so that you can't drive past. They insist you join them at midnight on a hot July evening. So that's just what you do, abandoning the car.

  

  Mary Quant
  • Family
  • Past
  • Nice

• The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.

  

  Waldemar Januszczak
  • World
  • Men
  • Thinking

• Whatever my situation is, I want to show that I'm not perfect, and perfect isn't real. The youth need to know that, especially.

  

  Keke Palmer
  • Real
  • Perfect

• You gotta be, like, a professional hippie. You need to make music because you love it.

  

  Nick Littlemore
  • Music
  • Like
  • Professional

• I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now.

  

  Matthew Lesko
  • Society

• We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights - or a leap to an entirely different level. We've taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Different
  • Real
  • Taken