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

• 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 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

• The problem in Venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented. It's that socialism has been faithfully implemented.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Problem
  • Socialism
  • Faithfully

• What was supposed to be two hours a night turned into four hours. The audience was so excited, so inspired and mesmerized. I thought: 'This is what it's all about. This is the true essence of what performance is supposed to be.' That's why I decided to do this tour

  

  Jim Messina Buffalo Springfield
  • Audience
  • Excited
  • Supposed

• If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities... the expression of love... then life itself loses its meaning.

  

  Harvey Milk
  • Free
  • Human activities
  • Expression of love

• Liberal elites and Democratic Party elders want all Hispanics to fall into a monolithic liberal agenda.

  

  Carlos Lopez-Cantera
  • Party
  • Fall

• As you travel through the Middle East what keeps on striking home to me is how similar everyone is, and yet the degree to which we can find differences to fight wars over. It requires a great deal of empathy, I think, between various sides to overcome this history and live in peace.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Live
  • Home

• I think there were moments on Snow White where I wished there was a little bit more of a sick humor toward Ravenna. But maybe the tone of the movie couldn't really support that. So you always have to kind of figure out where you are and adapt to it. Kristen Stewart

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Support

• 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