Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all.

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• I rarely went to the mosque, I never fasted, and I only prayed namaaz on the holy nights because my mom bugged me about it.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Mom
  • Holy
  • Nights

• We have to be aware that fossil fuel energy sources have an expiry date. A timeframe of 30, 40 or 50 years can seem a long time to get rewards for economic policy, but it's only a short time for implementing a new energy policy.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Time
  • Long
  • Energy

• Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Work
  • Important
  • May

• The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • School
  • Movie
  • Career

• The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Fire
  • Communication
  • Dead

• I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • Great
  • Growth
  • Pride

• I have a few homes, and Los Angeles is certainly one of them.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Los Angeles
  • Certainly
  • Los

• 'Holy Smoke' is very brave because I don't think it's easy to watch.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Think
  • Easy
  • Brave

• You never know in TV - sometimes you're on at the wrong time at the wrong place. Sometimes you don't get a chance to catch on.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Chance

• What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Men
  • Children

• The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Heart
  • Past
  • Present

• YOU LYING WHORE!!! You used me! You never loved me! I hope you slide under a gas truck and taste your own blood! DIE! DIE! DIE! I want my records back! I want my fucking records back!

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Hope
  • Die
  • Truck

• At the bottom of at least popular Marxism there has always been a kind of disgust with humanity as it is and a perfect faith in humanity as it is to be.

  

  Lionel Trilling
  • Faith
  • Perfect
  • Humanity

• I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.

  

  Benazir Bhutto
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• It was admitted by all her friends, and also by her enemies - who were in truth the more numerous and active body of the two - that Lizzie Greystock had done very well with herself.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Done
  • Truth
  • Friends

• My mom has given me my sense of style. She has taught me how individual style is so beautiful, what you appreciate on someone else might not be good for you. For her, style is all about being comfortable, and she has an innate sense of sophisticated style.

  

  Bibhu Mohapatra
  • Good
  • She
  • Beautiful

• My mom suggested studying acting in college, but I was a bit scared to choose that path because I couldn't wrap my head around the drama school audition process.

  

  Karen Fukuhara
  • School
  • College
  • Mom

• Second, there were the discussions and drafts leading up to the White Paper on Employment Policy of 1944 in which the UK government accepted the maintenance of employment as an obligation of governmental policy.

  

  James Meade Kutless
  • Up

• There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • You
  • Positive
  • Inside

• It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid of losing it. And if you fear that loss, but become ill, you will suffer. Why not remain forever joyful in the Self?

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Why
  • Fear
  • Health

• The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.

  

  Princess Diana
  • People
  • Age
  • Feeling

• Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Life
  • Art
  • May

• What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Age
  • Past
  • Values