Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.

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• 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

• From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Motivational
  • Fortune
  • Tribe

• It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Tough

• 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

• A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Ethical
  • Blindness

• People are so familiar with the show that I think they're perfectly happy to let it go by without asking any questions. There's a passivity to how we experience 'The Sound of Music.'

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • People
  • Music
  • Experience

• By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

  

  O. Henry
  • Nature
  • Habit
  • Choice

• Are you the strongest of all men, so strong that you can be merciful to me, a weak woman? Here is the undoing of your strength: I am not a weak woman. I am not a little queen. And your mercy will be your undoing.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Men
  • Strong
  • Mercy

• Israel is much worse than the original apartheid state.

  

  Clare Short

• When some French were assembling an encyclopedia of paranormal experiences, they decided to leave déjà vu out, because it was so common it could not be considered paranormal.

  

  Kim Stanley Robinson

• Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as 'grace under pressure' - grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • May
  • Fear
  • Courage

• When you think about your relationship with Christ, it really just affects every aspect of your life. I think a lot of people try to segment off, like, 'This is church, so this is God, this is my daily life, this is my job,' but I think true faith is when it manifests itself in every single aspect of your life.

  

  Jeremy Lin
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.

  

  Lexa Doig
  • God
  • Parents
  • Patience

• I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.

  

  Christopher Reeve

• After years of mass immigration, falling wages, and surging joblessness, isn't it time we focused on the needs of the people living here today? Isn't it time we got our own people back to work?

  

  Jeff Sessions
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I did have a literal shed of fan mail once. It was literally filled with, like, 25 of those giant mail cartons.

  

  Andrew Keegan

• One has the right to be wrong in a democracy.

  

  Claude Pepper
  • Democracy

• Everybody wants to be on the field and show what they're capable of and help their football team win games.

  

  Brock Osweiler
  • Help
  • Team
  • Football

• I have never been a different person onstage than I am off.

  

  Gloria Gaynor
  • Different

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  Karl Marx

• Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Artist
  • Solitude
  • Claustrophobic

• I grew up in a really bad situation; my father left when I was young - you know, an abusive situation. So the minute I put my fingers on a guitar and closed my eyes and just played, it literally was like a drug. It took me into a totally different world, and I just pulled from emotions and experiences that I was going through.

  

  DJ Ashba Beautiful Creatures
  • World
  • Different
  • Father

• It's just human nature - isn't it? - to be more attracted to something that's taboo. If someone tells you not to smoke, you wanna smoke. If they say, 'Don't do drugs,' you wanna do drugs. That's why I've always thought that the best way to stop people taking drugs is to legalise the fucking things. It would take people about five seconds to realise that being an addict is a terribly unattractive and pathetic way to be, whereas at the moment it still has that kind of rebel cool vibe to it, y'know?

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • People
  • Kind
  • Drug

• The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Drug
  • Toxic