Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous. . . . The world seen through the lens of ideology is a very limited world.

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• I'm not looking to shock anyone.

  

  Victoria Justice
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• There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'

  

  R. Kelly
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• We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
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• I would love to go to Ladakh - there are beautiful monasteries there and because I am from Himachal. I would love to go to Paris. I haven't been to New York, which I have heard a lot about. And, I would love to go to Kanyakumari. I think that would be interesting!

  

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• In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.

  

  Naomi Klein
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• The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.

  

  Camila Alves
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• Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
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• Is an out-of-control life challenge making you feel 'out of control' over your entire life? If so, stop lying around doing nothing. Stop sleeping late. Stop watching too much TV. Start recognizing that this lack of a disciplined schedule will only increase your feelings of being out of control of your life.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
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• Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.

  

  Harlan Coben
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• If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.

  

  Patrice Leconte
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• Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
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• The 'Family Ties' role was the first of many gay roles that I've ended up playing. I remember that I made them laugh, and it made me feel good, 'cause it really cracked them up.

  

  Hank Azaria
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• I'm not too interested in books about India.

  

  Beatrice Wood
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• In the Holy Book of Islam, Allah says:

  

  Abdus Salam
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• Restraining the thought-streams natural to the mind, ... the seer dwells in his own nature. Otherwise he is of the same form as the thought-streams.

  

  Patanjali
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• In the last 20 years, thanks to your hard work, polio has declined by 99 percent. In 1988, 350,000 people got polio. By 2008, the number was down to just a couple of thousand. 'Bill Gates - Rotary International' Bill & Melinda Gates foundation (21 January 2009)

  

  Bill Gates
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• If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease.

  

  Jean O'Leary
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• 'Bridesmaids,' I think, opened up a door to allow women to show a bunch of different women in different ways of being funny. It was kind of like an arrival moment.

  

  Kay Cannon
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• When I was six, right before I started swimming, we went to a national competition here in Maryland and watched Michael Phelps swim, and I got to meet him afterwards, and I got his autograph. Fast forward nine years, and I'm at the Olympics with him, and it's like: 'Woah.'

  

  Katie Ledecky
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• There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
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• When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

  

  Douglas Coupland
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• Mr. Clay, during my whole political life, I have loved and revered as a teacher and leader.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• I believe psychology has done very well in working out how to understand and treat disease. But I think that is literally half-baked. If all you do is work to fix problems, to alleviate suffering, then by definition you are working to get people to zero, to neutral.

  

  Martin Seligman
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• I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous. . . . The world seen through the lens of ideology is a very limited world.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • Past
  • Ideology