Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.

Terence McKenna

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• I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.

  

  C. J. Box
  • People
  • Children
  • Real

• When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Night
  • Homeless
  • Minimum Wage

• I was a momma's boy. I didn't get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was at the ballpark.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Dad

• I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my father is very conservative, and he never considered fashion to be a real career but something I could pursue as a hobby. He wanted me to be a doctor, and at one point, I thought of becoming a plastic surgeon.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Real
  • Father
  • Career

• I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Man
  • Lost
  • Rest

• Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Powerful
  • Mystery
  • Emotions

• I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Experience
  • Man
  • Past

• If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Life
  • Care
  • Smart

• There's no one on this earth taken less seriously in a leadership context than a young woman - everything is against you.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • Earth
  • Taken
  • Woman

• My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • Time
  • Father
  • Death

• I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.

  

  Patanjali
  • Suffering
  • Failure
  • Ignorance

• I always knew I'd be more of a character actor than a leading man, and I always wanted to take that and run with it.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Character
  • Man
  • Run

• To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • American
  • Happy
  • Culture

• The luxury we have when we do a series is that we go through a long journey, and it keeps a lot of information and things to be revealed.

  

  Tcheky Karyo
  • Long
  • Journey
  • Information

• Separate inherently is not equal. There's a reason why $45 million was spent against marriage equality. It's because people understand the word does have meaning. And equality comes when we accept the same notions and the same institutions for everyone, regardless of race and gender and regardless of sex orientation.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Why
  • Marriage

• I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Northwestern... Then I had this really extraordinary, different life than my parents.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Education
  • College
  • Purpose

• I like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Television
  • Hollywood
  • Quiet

• Jesus didn't really die-someone gave him a long drug that made him look like dead, and he revived in the tomb. Answer: Roman soldiers knew how to kill people, and no disciple would have been fooled by a half-drugged, beat-up Jesus into thinking he'd defeated death and inaugurated the kingdom.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure heroin - dangerous, mysterious and totally addictive.

  

  Brian Molko Placebo
  • Drug
  • Addictive
  • Placebo

• By bringing the voices of the ordinary people faced with extraordinary challenges to television screens around the world, I hope to affect change in one community at a time.

  

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
  • Challenges
  • Television
  • Voices

• There's a whole thing now in the entertainment industry that's like, 'You need to write for yourself. Those are the people that are really valuable.' And it's just like, 'I don't want to! I just want to act!'

  

  Jenny Slate
  • People

• Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Television
  • Drug
  • Nevertheless