Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

We are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer.

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• I want to play interesting women.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Women
  • Want
  • Interesting

• I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Important
  • Think
  • Food

• I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Think
  • Strength
  • Greatest

• Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Job
  • You
  • Audience

• You think of movies like 'Midnight Run' and '48 Hours', those are great movies, especially 'Midnight Run.'

  

  Adam McKay
  • Great
  • Think
  • Movies

• I like shopping at retail places like JC Penney or Macy's, and maybe buying a top or a shirt, and then buying a skirt from Rue 21 or Forever 21 because they have the maxi skirts, which I appreciate so much, and then topping it off with something that I buy from a Somali shop.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Forever
  • Appreciate
  • Shopping

• I'm quite British; I've got big, flat feet, and I can't wear heels. I've got very, very pale Celtic skin, so my legs are always a frightening blue color. So when you take out clothes that reveal your legs, shoes that have any kind of heel, no shop will actually take my money.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Money
  • Color
  • Blue

• I only know what I read in the papers.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Know
  • Read
  • Only

• To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Love
  • For Her

• In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that you lose. And then you prepare for the next one.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • Learning
  • Democracy
  • Win

• Competitions make me nervous. When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating and not, 'I have to do this to win.' I forget it is a competition.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Me
  • Win
  • Competition

• Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think about it.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Stop

• To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

• The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment; the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Environment
  • Wishes

• If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.

  

  Aneurin Bevan
  • Freedom
  • Poverty

• We're committed to working with Congress to doing what the president said he was always going to do, which is cut the deficit in half over the - over his first term.

  

  Christina Romer

• If you don't want your dog to have bad breath, do what I do: Pour a little Lavoris in the toilet.

  

  Jay Leno
  • Bad
  • Dog

• The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.

  

  William Glasser
  • Day

• I was not the woman who breaks into pieces under the blows of abandonment and absence, who goes mad, who dies. Only a few fragments had splintered off, for the rest I was well. I was whole, whole I would remain. To those who hurt me, I react giving back in kind. I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Woman
  • Hurt
  • Animal

• I like people who are devoted to me: men who know I'm the most fabulous thing in the world, and they just look at me with adoration. That's how my dad looked at my mom, and that's how I expected to be looked at.

  

  Angela Bowie
  • People
  • World
  • Men

• When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Learning

• We are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Animal
  • Materials
  • Technological