Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

I spend as many hours a day as I possibly can smoking cannabis

Terence McKenna

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• One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • Great
  • Book

• Most of my stuff hasn't gone viral. I have been successful on YouTube and I'm very proud of the stuff that I've done, but compared to the people who are actual internet stars and making a living off of it, my views are nothing.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Done
  • Proud

• Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Country
  • Faith
  • Community

• If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Up
  • Age
  • Earth

• If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope. One of the central lessons I have learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress.

  

  Aga Khan IV
  • World
  • Hope
  • Fear

• Being nervous is not something you should be ashamed of. Nervous means you care, you really want to do well.

  

  Paula Creamer

• I learned from McDonald's that we can do great things from a marketing and advertising perspective, but if the experience at the restaurant isn't superior, it might not matter.

  

  Mary Dillon
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Perspective

• I never thought I'd be an expert at sword fighting, I never thought I'd be an expert in protein powders - I'm close to being an expert in both. It's great!

  

  Liam McIntyre
  • Great
  • Fighting

• You'd be surprised at how many times I'd hit the ball, and the hair would go straight into my eyes. That's why, even when I play indoors, I wear a visor, because it stops that, and I'll apply a lot of gel and hairspray to keep it tight.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • Why
  • Eyes
  • Hair

• Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans.

  

  Edward Hoagland
  • People

• If you can't figure out how to make the beginning of your book compelling, you're probably not writing a compelling book.

  

  Chris Pavone
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Beginning

• At home, I tend to read print, and most of the time, that means recently released hardcover novels. I enjoy the feel of paper and board; I like turning pages, dog-earing my spot, jotting notes in the back.

  

  Chris Pavone
  • Time
  • Home
  • Dog

• I'm striving toward this acting thing. I'm definitely gonna work hard on that, whatever comes my way, I'm gonna work hard on it.

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • Work

• When you're introducing a mobile app, you look around and say, 'We could be doing 15 different things, but how do we communicate to someone why they would want to download and even sign up for this thing?'

  

  Kevin Systrom
  • Up
  • Different
  • Why

• If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Cat

• I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

  

  Jimmy Hoffa
  • May

• I've always loved aggressive, hard, noisy, yet melodic bands, and at the same time I've always loved 'Blue' by Joni Mitchell.

  

  Art Alexakis
  • Time
  • Blue

• You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.

  

  Ken Jennings
  • High
  • Alone
  • Poetry

• It used to be that, in astronomy, a small team of people could look at photos of a few thousand galaxies and classify and catalog them relatively easily. But now, with a new generation of robotic telescopes scanning the skies constantly and producing millions of images, that's become next to impossible.

  

  Peter Diamandis
  • People
  • Small
  • Team

• A lot of people are not meant to be together.

  

  John Cusack
  • People
  • Together

• I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar.

  

  Christine Lahti
  • Life
  • Done
  • Proud

• You want to have two guys making out in front of your 4-year-old? It's OK with them. A guy smoking a joint, blowing the smoke into your little kid's face? OK with them. And I'm not exaggerating here. This is exactly what the secular movement stands for.

  

  Bill O'Reilly
  • Guy
  • Smoking

• What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?

  

  Max Muller
  • Reality
  • Light
  • Fire

• I spend as many hours a day as I possibly can smoking cannabis

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Smoking
  • Possibly
  • Cannabis