Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.

Terence McKenna

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• I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Real
  • Think

• I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Death
  • Scared
  • Ninja

• The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Political
  • Justice
  • Israel

• Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • You
  • Distance
  • Shopping

• The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Star
  • First
  • Week

• It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Father
  • Man
  • Thought

• In my eyes, a patriot is little more than an international blackleg.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Eyes
  • More
  • Patriot

• At 500, our policy is 12 weeks of fully paid leave for all parents in the U.S. Parents can choose to take this leave consecutively or spread it out through the first 12 months after birth.

  

  Christine Tsai
  • Parents

• I know there are those in the community who, rather than have us invest more in policing, even for community policing, instead want us to disinvest in the police department. We need a police department. We are going to have a police department.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Community
  • Police

• I don't have to announce all the women I've slept with.

  

  David Gest
  • Women

• Sometimes, being different feels a lot like being alone. But with that being said, being true to that and being true to my standards and my way of doing things in my art and my music, everything that has made me feel very different... in the end, it has made me the happiest.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • Music
  • Different
  • Art

• I don't want reporters to talk to me because I'm a revolutionary and if it got out that I'm basically friendly with Obama it would hurt Obama.

  

  Dinesh D'Souza
  • Hurt

• The overwhelming message of the Atonement is the perfect love the Savior has for each and all of us. It is a love which is full of mercy, patience, grace, equity, long-suffering, and, above all, forgiving.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Long
  • Perfect
  • Suffering

• Curiosity did kill the cat, but I'm very curious.

  

  Brittany Murphy
  • Cat
  • Curiosity

• I like living on the edge.

  

  James Dyson

• I know how to make stuff happen, how to create wealth, create jobs, create investment.

  

  Doug Ose

• There's something very cool about that indie spirit that I try to hang on to even now with the bigger films that I'm working on.

  

  James Wan
  • Cool

• The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a totemic image of the tower itself - leads to elevator cabs inlaid with exotic woods in fanciful patterns. The entire route from street to office is invested with ceremony, dignity, and delight.

  

  Martin Filler

• At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.

  

  George Best
  • Fear

• Love is not 'blind' but visionary: It sees into the very heart of its object And sees the 'real self' behind and in the midst Of the frailties and shortcomings of the person.

  

  Andras Angyal
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Person

• It is unreasonable to expect science to produce a system of ethics-ethics are a kind of highway code for traffic among mankind-and the fact that in physics atoms which were yesterday assumed to be square are now assumed to be round is exploited with unjustified tendentiousness by all who are hungry for faith; so long as physics extends our dominion over nature, these changes ought to be a matter of complete indifference to you.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Faith
  • Changes
  • Ethics

• Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Home
  • Strong
  • Better

• Music is my happiness, my joy, and when my body wasn't right I couldn't get into my music without being healed, without being healthy.

  

  Sharon Jones
  • Music
  • Happiness
  • Healed

• The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Sick
  • Madmen
  • Healed