Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

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• No branch of the law is of more importance to the counsellor, the statesman, or the citizen, than a thorough acquaintance with the Constitution and laws of the Federal Government, as they are administered and as they affect the rights of the people.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • People
  • Law
  • Government

• I don't like allegories.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Like

• We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • World
  • Money
  • Success

• I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Life
  • Language
  • My Life

• Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Way
  • Fear
  • Challenge

• I'm not prepared to give up the truth for popularity.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Give

• Canada is useful only to provide me with furs.

  

  Jeanne Antoinette Poisson

• I've got my head fixed on the next part of life. I know there will be an adjusting period of just not being a rugby player for a while, and over that period I'll get my head around what the next challenge involves.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Player
  • Period
  • Rugby

• The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • War
  • Political
  • Economic

• Rather than caring about whether or not you are known, strive to be worth knowing.

  

  Confucius
  • Knowing
  • Caring
  • Strive

• I've had Motley fans come up to me and talk to me about Motley. I've had other fans talk to me about all the backing vocals and the tapes. I just ask them, 'At the end of the day, did you have a good time?' That's it.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • Fans
  • Good Time
  • Vocals

• Modesty is good. But take your credit. You can't always count on other people to offer it.

  

  Alexander C. Irvine
  • Credit
  • Modesty
  • Count

• Style is luxury, and luxury is simply what makes you happy.

  

  Deborah Needleman
  • Happy
  • Luxury
  • Simply

• We with Alix MacKenzie had decided we needed further training, and certainly Leach was the one we turned to. So we went to England this summer and we took examples of our work along with us and showed them to Bernard Leach and told him what we were trying to do. And of course he took one look at our work and he said - very quickly he said, "I'm sorry, we're full up," and this was his way of politely saying, you just don't make the cut.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Trying
  • Training
  • Summer

• When I finished telling that story, the master of ceremonies said Howard Green enjoyed the story, but you named the wrong commissioner.

  

  Bobby Bragan
  • Story
  • Green
  • Enjoyed

• Democracy is our most valuable possession. Upholding it is our duty and our responsibility. This means a continuous, decisive and self-confident argument; it means effort and endeavor to reach compromise and long-lasting consensus. These form the cornerstones of the only form of political system that can guarantee freedom.

  

  Wolfgang Thierse
  • Political
  • Responsibility
  • Democracy

• What is needed, is an awakening.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Needed
  • Awakening