Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.

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• The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Always
  • Said
  • Employment

• I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Work
  • Art
  • Fashion

• I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Forget
  • Bosnia

• You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • You
  • Know
  • Person

• I always tell my partners that our job is to fund all the companies we can that can be worth $10 billion or more. That's such a difficult constraint, we can't have any other constraints.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Job
  • Difficult
  • Worth

• The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Live
  • Hope

• We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • You
  • Road
  • Grand Canyon

• People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • People
  • Want
  • Hurt

• Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Life
  • Soccer

• This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Kind
  • Government
  • Husband

• Investment in training is a huge necessity for knowledge-based corporations.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Knowledge
  • Training
  • Investment

• Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Better
  • Mathematics

• When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That's just how much my mom meant to me. I couldn't imagine being in this world without her. But then seeing cancer - seeing what it can do to somebody - as strong and as tough as she was, there was nothing she could do. Cancer is a dirty, dirty deal.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Strong
  • Mom
  • Cancer

• As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version of Fred Astaire, and he was amazing as well.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Up
  • Amazing
  • Always

• A lot of people will look at you and will fail to see your beauty because you're covered up and they're not used to it. So growing up, I just had to work on my people skills and give people a chance to really know me besides the clothing.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• It's getting worse under Prime Minister Modi. The economic miracle has failed, to a degree, and people are reaching back to a kind of imagined Hindu past for a feeling of pride. And that feeling of pride necessarily comes from denying any kind of Muslim heritage. People my age seem to be becoming illiberal in a way that I'm surprised by.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Age
  • Past

• A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Good
  • Proportion
  • U.K.

• I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Different
  • Money
  • Experience

• Queen Victoria did not regard art, letters, or music as in any way springing from national character: they were something quite apart, elegant decorations resembling a scarf or a bracelet, and in no way expressive of the soul of the country.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Music
  • Country
  • Art

• If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Job
  • Book
  • Career

• We had so many of our fans tell us how worthless they felt before they found out about us and watched our interviews and listened to our music.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Music

• What people don't understand is that calling someone too skinny is the same as calling someone too fat; it's not a nice feeling.

  

  Kendall Jenner
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Nice

• The Blue Brain project expects to have a full human-scale simulation of the cerebral cortex by 2018. I think that's a little optimistic, actually, but I do make the case that by 2029 we will have very detailed models and simulations of all the different brain regions.

  

  Ray Kurzweil
  • Brain
  • Project
  • Models

• I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • People
  • Want
  • Earth