Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
Quotes to Explore
-
If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
-
I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
-
The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
-
We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
-
Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.
-
I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
-
I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
-
I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.
-
I didn't know I wanted to be a gymnast; I was just introduced to the gym. I loved the place because it looked like a hi-tech playground with mats and a lot of things I can hang from.
-
Because America is a democracy, public support for presidential foreign-policy decisions is essential.
-
I think there needs to be modified penalties in training camp because there's severely modified compensation in training camp for all of us.
-
I always had acting work when I needed it. I think that is why, when I watch films or TV series in America, I find in small roles or in supporting roles really amazing faces, where I have the feeling these people have actually had a life outside of acting. I find it almost a pity that I've never done anything else.
-
If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.
-
I think, when I was 25, nobody in the world knew who I was.
-
Everyone has some sort of connection to mental illness.
-
I'm not a particularly shiny, happy person. I'm fairly cynical, and that's what draws me to comedy.
-
'The Infinity War' is meant to be a culmination film. It's meant to join together all of the Marvel Cinematic Universe against an incredible universal threat - Thanos.
-
When people ask what it's like to be an only child, I say it depends on who your parents are. I was lucky.
-
I'm over the moon to be involved in the 'Doctor Who' Christmas special. I can't quite believe it as it's a part of the family tradition at the Jenkins household. I heard the news that I got the role on my 30th birthday and it was the best birthday present ever.
-
If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.
-
I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better.
-
It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness.
-
At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.
-
Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
