Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

The only frontier now left to exploit is not a frontier in space but a frontier in time. We steal the future from our children by plunging massively deeper and deeper into debt.

Terence McKenna

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• I am a very reclusive, private person.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Person
  • Private
  • Reclusive

• Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Good
  • Better
  • Minimum Wage

• Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Game
  • Team
  • College

• I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our children - because they are all our children.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Children
  • Dreams
  • Here

• As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Science
  • Kid
  • Excited

• Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Think

• Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Home
  • Sports
  • Next

• 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

• The men who are successful have become the most dependent on success to attract love. When this man loses his success, he often fears he will lose love.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Success

• P. 33.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan

• In the heart of the desert and founded by the first Spanish Conquistadores, Las Vegas has become the entertainment capital of the world, with more than 30 million visitors a year.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • World
  • Heart
  • Spanish

• Losing my parents, who I admired, loved and needed, it took a long time to be able to move on.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Time
  • Long
  • Parents

• On 'American Idol,' I felt like one of my challenges was picking songs because I've definitely been exposed to a lot of music. So when I went to pick songs, it was difficult for me to choose, but I'd always go to country because country music is so memorable.

  

  Danny Gokey
  • Music
  • Country
  • American

• I've always been a family man and count myself as one of those who are lucky to have the comfort of a family.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Family

• When I started at the Air Force Academy, I found out that I couldn't be a fighter pilot simply because I had ovaries. That was enough to make me go for it.

  

  Martha McSally
  • Air

• Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.

  

  Christoph Waltz
  • Life
  • Father
  • Challenge

• Shooting on location and dressing locations in Los Angeles is shockingly expensive, especially when you're talking about webseries-level budgets, so the opportunity to build our sets in YouTube's space gives us a lot more room in our budget in being able to create the world of 'VGHS' properly.

  

  Freddie Wong
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Space

• When you're singing before 15,000 people at a summer concert outside, you need to look beautiful, because that's what people want.

  

  Anna Netrebko
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Singing

• The office of the president is the most powerful in the world. It is also, at times, the most powerless.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • World
  • Powerful

• The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.

  

  Sara Willis
  • Life
  • Chance
  • Journey

• All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Money
  • Government
  • Problems

• If you take a child from South Africa and you put them in Boston, they're going to speak with a Boston accent. And so, that's a way to see the world as everybody is equal, not as a result of politics, but as human beings.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • World
  • Children
  • Speak

• I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Thinking
  • Definitions
  • Precise

• The only frontier now left to exploit is not a frontier in space but a frontier in time. We steal the future from our children by plunging massively deeper and deeper into debt.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Children
  • Space
  • Debt