Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.

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• Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Trying
  • Poetry
  • Difficult

• I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Always
  • System
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• You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.

  

  Francesca Annis
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• When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

  

  W. Clement Stone
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• I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I really just concentrated on acting.

  

  Callie Thorne
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  • Acting
  • New York

• My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

  

  Samantha Power
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  • Last

• I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Myself
  • Player
  • Never

• People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Power
  • Together

• If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • World
  • Music
  • Love

• All my life I have fought corruption.

  

  A. K. Antony
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  • My Life
  • Corruption

• There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Wind
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• Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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  • Literature
  • Start

• I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Country
  • Taken
  • Serious

• My family are my friends.

  

  Becky G
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  • Friends

• Once the war of words begins, truth is the casualty.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
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  • War
  • Words

• I try to eat healthy for the most part. When I cut weight, I cut pretty much everything out. I don't have protein when I cut weight other than what I might get from something like chicken breast. So I don't eat any extra protein, just because I'm trying to get the weight off. That's the only real diet I have.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the 'New York Times' or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Lost
  • College

• I loved multi-tasking. I loved being involved in a lot of things. To me, the more complex the better, and so being a leader of a business to me was like, 'Wow, that's what I want to be.'

  

  Denise Morrison
  • Business

• Fame is such a weird concept. It's sort of intangible... Really, it's a bizarre process to be striving for something, attain it, then have the whole world around you change - but you're still kind of the same in the middle of it.

  

  Jacob Fink
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  • Weird

• I was born in 1965. When I grew up in India, there was no expectation that a good Muslim woman wore the headscarf. But what happened when I came here to the U.S. and the emergence of the Saudi and Iranian theologies in the world is that the headscarf became the hijab and the hijab is now the idea that is synonymous with headscarf.

  

  Asra Nomani
  • World
  • Women
  • Born

• Balance in life is the key, as Aristotle taught us. Nobody likes a naive Pollyanna, but neither do we like to be around people who are constantly complaining and finding fault.

  

  Mark Skousen
  • People
  • Life
  • Balance

• I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.

  

  Terence McKenna
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  • Ideas
  • Firsts