Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

Don't diddle the dose. Once you have done your homework, go for it.

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• I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Long
  • Hair
  • Look

• Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.

  

  Usher
  • Believe
  • Dreams
  • Achieve

• We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Keep
  • Compliments

• I lost the good stuff on my fastball. I had to come up with something to keep me in the league. The knuckler rescued me then.

  

  Ted Lyons
  • Good
  • Lost
  • Keep

• I'm not quite as anonymous as I was.

  

  Larry David
  • Anonymous
  • Quite

• I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help them was shattering for me.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • People
  • Help
  • Dying

• I had a blast in the '90s, perhaps too much fun, and maybe I should have worked a lot harder and partied a lot less, but I definitely don't regret the 12 years I spent living out in L.A.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Fun
  • Years
  • Regret

• The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Success
  • Knowledge
  • Strength

• But we are all human, I thought, wondering what I meant.

  

  Ralph Ellison

• After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Great
  • American
  • Movie

• I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • Childhood

• I try to look after myself, but I don't think it's a good thing to be obsessed with body image. I wouldn't want a son or daughter of mine to feel manipulated by that; it's the wrong message.

  

  Aneurin Barnard
  • Good
  • Son
  • Daughter

• The gas tax has been the backbone of the transportation system since the inception of the Interstate highway system in the 1950s.

  

  Anthony Foxx

• If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

  

  Douglas Adams
  • Family
  • Small
  • Bird

• You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.

  

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

• Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Great
  • Art

• The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.

  

  Leo Ornstein

• Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
  • Time
  • Death
  • Freedom

• I think the most important foundation about any relationship is just being honest. You've got to. My wife and I are honest to a fault with each other, and we're best friends on top of it, so we're very fortunate.

  

  Max Greenfield
  • Important
  • Friends
  • Relationship

• I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it's lasting me very well.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Brain

• Lots of my friends and family belong to churches, and some of them are part of the so-called Christian Right. In this preacher, I wanted to show a good man struggling to reconcile his commitment to the community with the political agenda of his church. He does not see that as a dilemma, but I do.

  

  Lanford Wilson
  • Good
  • Family
  • Friends

• Don't diddle the dose. Once you have done your homework, go for it.

  

  Terence McKenna