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 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

• You work very hard on the lyrics. Getting them to fit the contours of improvised melodies.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Work
  • Lyrics

• The strongest army in the world [the French] facing no more than twenty-six [German] divisions, sitting still and sheltering behind steel and concrete while a quixotically valiant ally was being exterminated!

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • World
  • Army
  • German

• I would say what Mad Men has taught me has been a super elevated evaluation of text in general, and understanding subtext, and understanding where a character comes from - what he means by this or by that.

  

  Ben Feldman
  • Men
  • Character
  • Understanding

• The song 'Take This Job and Shove It' spent 18 weeks on the country charts in 1977. 1970s country music fans had a clearer understanding of the ennui of wage-slavery than modern elites.

  

  Alex Pareene
  • Music
  • Country
  • Job

• It is of immense importance for the understanding of the word of God, to read it in course, so that we may read every day a portion of the Old and a portion of the New Testament, going on where we previously left off.

  

  George Muller
  • God
  • May
  • Understanding

• He's waiting for yu, young queen.' Shocked, I stared at Seoras. 'Heath?' The Warrior's look was wise and understanding - his voice gentle. 'Aye, yur Heath probably does await you somewhere in the future, but it is of your Guardian I speak.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Future
  • Understanding
  • Waiting

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

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Understanding
  • Moved
  • Enterprise