Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.

Terence McKenna

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• Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Movie

• There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Great
  • New
  • New York

• I like things going on in my life. I don't want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Beach

• I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Believe
  • Style
  • Hunting

• Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Time
  • Important
  • Long

• Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Future
  • Myself
  • Destiny

• Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.

  

  Jack Gould
  • Sex
  • Television
  • Taxes

• I watched westerns when I was a kid, like everybody else, but I wasn't a total nerd or geek about it. I kind of fell in love with westerns heavily when I started watching Sergio Leone's westerns.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Love
  • Kind
  • Kid

• The anti-Darwin movement has racked up one astounding achievement. It has made a significant proportion of American parents care about what their children are taught in school.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Up
  • Children
  • School

• I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Tennis
  • Court
  • Only

• And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Experience
  • Opinion
  • Information

• I am surprised by how not-adopted the video reply has been. What keeps other people from doing it, I think, is that they think a video comes across as 'I'm cool, look at how many e-mails I get.' That perception doesn't scare me, because I know who I am.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Perception
  • Video

• It is now the scientific consensus that our risk-avoidance mechanism is not mediated by the cognitive modules of our brain, but rather by the emotional ones. This may have made us fit for the Pleistocene era. Our risk machinery is designed to run away from tigers; it is not designed for the information-laden modern world.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • May
  • Brain

• Lighten your palette his remark to Cézanne circa 1873, to encourage Cézanne to use bright colors, paint only with the three primary colours and their derivatives.

  

  Camille Pissarro

• Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

  

  Anais Nin
  • Live
  • Effort

• I totally changed my life, changed my lifestyle.

  

  Marilu Henner
  • Life

• The president named Obama is probably not going to repeal the bill that's named after him.

  

  Cory Gardner

• I love what I do. That's one of the reasons I've stayed. I love the community; I love driving to work.

  

  Billy Beane
  • Work
  • Community
  • Driving

• If I don't go to the gym for a week, I just get thinner and thinner.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Week
  • Gym
  • Just

• 'Community' is a great show. I love 'Raising Hope' with Martha Plimpton. And I love 'The Middle' - another Chicagoan in there is Neil Flynn, who used to play the janitor in 'Scrubs.'

  

  Jim O'Heir
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Community

• Although humor is present in every one of my films, it has always been used as a way to make the darker, heavier stuff in my stories more palatable. I never set out to make 'Humpday' a comedy.

  

  Lynn Shelton
  • Comedy
  • Present

• I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that you have to work within. You are, in a sense, straightjacketed by the rules of the mathematics. But within that constrained environment, it's up to you what you do with the symbols.

  

  Brian Greene
  • Up
  • Work
  • Environment

• Television and movies were our biggest teachers. When we came to the United States, the Vietnam War was just ratcheting up. And so the Asian faces that I saw on the news, they were the face of the enemy. Asian men, particularly, were either small, ineffective, or they were evil. And those messages were deeply, deeply embedded in me for many years.

  

  Alex Tizon
  • Up
  • Men
  • War

• Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Environment
  • Deaf
  • Mute