Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.

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• With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Up
  • New
  • Eating

• You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Style
  • Learn
  • Try

• Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Important
  • Women
  • American

• We filmed 'Expelled' in Santa Clarita at an all-girl's school. There were twelve hour days.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • School
  • Girl
  • Days

• I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Actor
  • Director
  • Rely

• During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.

  

  Ferdinand Piech
  • People
  • Career
  • Succeeded

• I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Kids
  • Game
  • Way

• My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that.

  

  Fay Wray
  • People
  • Different
  • Book

• It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.

  

  Walter Lord
  • People
  • Great
  • Nice

• Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Work
  • Music
  • Art

• The married woman as family provider beside the man, often also in place of the man, but always however subservient to the man's dominion - this is the worst form of woman slavery our time has created.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Time
  • Family
  • Slavery

• There's no particular method or course of action that I take in order to decide who I'm going to work with besides feeling complete and total respect and admiration for that artist.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Work
  • Feeling
  • Respect

• I saturated myself with the improv community.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • Community

• The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

  

  Ann Landers
  • Happy
  • Wish
  • Single

• I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.

  

  Will Smith
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts.

  

  Emma Watson
  • Time
  • Beginning

• As a comic and as an actor, I think you've got to be partially crazy.

  

  Craig Robinson
  • Crazy

• Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

  

  James Joyce

• I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminato ry "making out" and "sleeping around," we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Convinced
  • Human Heart
  • Virginity

• How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Alone

• Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent and rational investing.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Understanding
  • End
  • Intelligent

• I don't know if I can say exactly what I seek in books, but one of them would be to deepen and expand my understanding of the world.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • World
  • Understanding

• If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.

  

  Bruce Nauman
  • Interesting

• To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Understanding
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