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

• America is the world of peace and must be made the continent of its definite consequence.

  

  Carlos Saavedra Lamas
  • World
  • America
  • Peace

• Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Education
  • Learning
  • Revolution

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

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • School
  • Girl
  • Days

• There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's The Simpsons, and then there's everything else.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Fortune

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

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Actor
  • Director
  • Rely

• What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.

  

  Kate Millett
  • God
  • Mean
  • Mental Illness

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

  

  Ferdinand Piech
  • People
  • Career
  • Succeeded

• I think when the bottom started to drop out, we didn't recognize it.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Think
  • Bottom
  • Drop

• 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

• The ordinary surroundings of life which are esteemed by men (as their actions testify) to be the highest good, may be classed under the three heads - Riches, Fame, and the Pleasures of Sense: with these three the mind is so absorbed that it has little power to reflect on any different good.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Life
  • Good
  • Men

• 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'm not a good storyteller - I much prefer to be with people who are chatty, to have the luxury of listening.

  

  Conor McPherson
  • People
  • Good
  • Listening

• What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Age
  • Horse
  • Listen

• Implicit in the Hollywood formula of mom-by-option and dad-by-default is mom never at fault...to a fault.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Option

• With iPad publishing, you can try new things, experiment, and even launch new magazines without the massive risk normally associated with print publishing. The future is digital, so there will be a digital version of everything we do going forward. There has to be. The cheese has been moved.

  

  Scott Kelby
  • Trying
  • Risk
  • Moved

• What is it, Angel?" she said, starting up. "Have they come for me?" "Yes, dearest," he said. "They have come." "It is as it should be," she murmured. "Angel, I am almost glad—yes, glad! This happiness could not have lasted. It was too much. I have had enough; and now I shall not live for you to despise me!" She stood up, shook herself, and went forward, neither of the men having moved. "I am ready," she said quietly.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Happiness
  • Angel
  • Too Much

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

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Understanding
  • Moved
  • Enterprise