Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

I think that the whole thing, the crux of the whole psychedelic issue, is that it accentuates personal responsibility by making people take their own experiences seriously.

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• Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.

  

  Tamera Mowry
  • Life
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• It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Time
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  • Down

• No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • You
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• I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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  • Great
  • Sacrifice

• I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Different
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• I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
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• Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

  

  Ralph Ransom
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• The condition of rage is one in which I find myself starting my day - once I see the news headlines.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Day
  • Myself
  • Find

• The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Years
  • Rain
  • Plants

• We don't have to sit by while Trump uses his enormous global platform to undermine our national security. We would love to be able to actually force Twitter's hand to live up to its rules, explicitly forbidding hate speech and encouraging violence.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Live
  • Hate
  • Violence

• There's something in me that loves to inspire people: when I'm playing music, I imagine all this sparkly stardust going through everyone. I want to make people come alive.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Music
  • Want

• The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.

  

  Varley O'Connor
  • People
  • Life
  • Famous

• At the resurrection, there will be the return of spirits to their bodies, the revivification of the bodies, and the remaking of the bodies.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Will
  • Return
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• The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Want
  • Achieve
  • Nation

• I wanna record these girls individually. And then, I wanna cut a blues album on me. But all of it, original stuff, you know. When I listen to the blues today, it's like they all sounds similar. I wanna do something different, to try to add to the blues flavor.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Know
  • Girls
  • Blues

• To be honest, I haven't felt at my best since this tournament began. I didn't feel good with the court or the balls. But those are excuses. You have to accept when you don't play well and somebody else does.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Good
  • Excuses

• It does not destroy matter, which is reassuring. Rewriting one law of physics is worse than trying to eat one peanut.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Trying
  • Law

• There are many things I'm looking forward to in 2013, both personally and professionally. Plans for new restaurants in the U.S., including Eataly Chicago, are underway, and I'm gearing up for the 2013 Ironman world championships in Hawaii - if I'm lucky enough to get a spot!

  

  Joe Bastianich
  • Up
  • World
  • Chicago

• I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Time
  • Friends

• I have a deep conviction that our lives are eternal, that it is waking and sleeping, that we are born together with the people we love lifetime after lifetime.

  

  Marcia Wallace
  • People
  • Together
  • Deep

• The first acting thing I ever did was my senior year I decided not to play a sport in the Spring and, in that Spring B.J. Novak who went to school with me, asked if I'd be in this show that was a parody of all the teachers in the school, 'sure!' That was the first acting thing I did.

  

  John Krasinski
  • School
  • Spring
  • Senior

• A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.

  

  David Brin
  • Up

• I think that the whole thing, the crux of the whole psychedelic issue, is that it accentuates personal responsibility by making people take their own experiences seriously.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Responsibility