Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity.

Terence McKenna

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• I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Soccer

• Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Thinking
  • Home
  • Business

• I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Society

• When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Best

• I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Time
  • God
  • Long

• A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Last

• If I can save 25 billion dollars in terms of reduction of import, I will be adding one percent to the GDP. By conserving the oil energy by the people, the GDP will become 5.5 percent, and this will change the economy of the country.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • People
  • Country
  • Energy

• All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Love
  • True

• It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Enemy
  • Forgiveness
  • Forgive

• People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • People
  • Life
  • View

• So the storm passed and every one was happy.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Happy
  • Storm
  • Passed

• Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.

  

  Sabine Lisicki
  • Me
  • Joy
  • Tennis

• Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • You
  • Politics
  • Turn

• I'd done a ton of movies here in Hollywood, and I realized that every movie I'd done was somebody's else's work and someone else's vision.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Work
  • Done
  • Movie

• It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Business
  • Day
  • Fight

• My experiences in the military, the private sector, and as a congressional staffer were at times almost enough to drive me crazy. Writing offered the all-too-often-cited creative outlet.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Writing
  • Crazy
  • Military

• Every time there's an election, people start to criticize China.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Time
  • Election

• Bahrain lies at the epicenter of Gulf security and any violent upheaval in Bahrain would have enormous geopolitical consequences. Global economic stability depends on the uninterrupted export of crude oil from the Gulf to markets around the world - a job that historically has been assigned to the U.S. Fifth Fleet.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • World
  • Job
  • Lies

• You can't trust the internet.

  

  Nicollette Sheridan
  • Trust
  • Internet

• You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Together
  • Team
  • Win

• One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Evolution

• Now it's been fifteen years, nine games, and an enormous blast to undertake. If it were my choice, I would do this role forever. To hear anyone else's voice coming from Snake's battered throat, makes me a little ill, to be honest.

  

  David Hayter
  • Choice
  • Honest
  • Role

• The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Artist
  • Care
  • Creativity