Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.

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• There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Picture
  • Thought
  • End

• I think there's no greater healing power than music.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Music
  • Power
  • Healing

• When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Look
  • Civilization
  • Pool

• There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Always
  • Creation
  • Shame

• A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Good
  • Together
  • Ending

• Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Light
  • Broken
  • Habit

• When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Kids
  • Father

• Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Door
  • Yourself
  • Snow

• I'm just being normal. A normal woman. Well, I don't know what a normal woman is, but I'm a woman and I'm Yoko and I've never changed that.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Know
  • Woman
  • Never

• My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a great time.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Time
  • Great
  • Family

• Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Laugh
  • Tough

• My father was a research doctor at the National Institutes of Health in the early 1980s, and you couldn't work in the field and not know about D. Carleton Gajdusek, who my father often mentioned.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Father
  • Health

• Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Time
  • Song
  • Action

• I'm addicted to laughing. I go to see a lot of comedy shows. I'm addicted to playing really loud and obnoxious rock music in my car. I'm addicted to beautiful clothes and shoes. I just love gorgeous stuff and work hard to acquire pretty things, shiny things. I'm addicted to shiny things!

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Work
  • Music
  • Love

• The thing about performance, even if it’s only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Celebration

• How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!Who has written such volumes of stuff!Some think him ill-tempered and queer,But a few think him pleasant enough.

  

  Edward Lear

• Like some magistrate grown gray in office,Calmly he contemplates alike the justAnd unjust, with indifference he notesEvil and good, and knows not wrath nor pity.

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • Good

• Il est dans la nature humaine de penser sagement et d'agir d'une façon absurde.

  

  Anatole France
  • Nature

• Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Character

• Only be an actor if you can't be happy doing anything else. I don't think you should be an actor if you want to be actor. I think you should be an actor if you have to be an actor.

  

  Linden Ashby
  • Happy

• The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Man
  • Does
  • Listeners

• People judge you by the way you play in the playoffs.

  

  Jaromir Jagr
  • People
  • Judge

• As a child, because manga was always around and I was reading it, I naturally thought, 'Hey, I'd like to draw manga - I'd like to be a manga author!'

  

  Natsuki Takaya
  • Reading
  • Thought
  • Child

• Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • People
  • World
  • Culture