Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.

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• The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Time
  • History
  • New

• I love cycling.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Cycling

• I don't particularly get nervous about anything.

  

  Fabrice Muamba
  • Anything
  • Get
  • Nervous

• Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.

  

  Garth Hudson
  • Music
  • Country
  • Rock

• Police can only act on intelligence.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Police
  • Intelligence
  • Only

• If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Heart
  • Remember
  • House

• Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Life
  • Hair
  • Sex

• Every morning, I can lose myself just by looking at my son.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Myself
  • Morning
  • Son

• On the actual competition days, you get about three or four hours of physical exertion - between an hour-long warm-up, recovery in-between runs, the training runs, and then the runs themselves.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Up
  • Long
  • Training

• At Liverpool, I had almost everything but titles. I felt like a king, but the team was falling apart.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Team
  • King
  • Falling

• I will not say I would not serve if the good people were imprudent enough to elect me.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Good
  • Enough
  • Good People

• Something on mainstream radio is very in your face with the vocals. I tried that, and it just doesn't feel like Washed Out. It's got to have that haziness to it.

  

  Washed Out
  • Feel
  • Face
  • Radio

• Jack: pointing a pistol at Bob's trousers I'm going to blow your brains out.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Blow

• Anyone could be in the orchestra, or sports team, or arts club at my school. It was precisely the kind of inclusivity that now meets with a sort of scorn and derision as a prizes-for-all culture that generates only mediocrity. There's something so insulting about the idea that including lots of people means mediocrity.

  

  Elizabeth Price
  • People
  • School
  • Culture

• As a child who lived in a lot of places, one of the hardest things for me was to join a new community. It was hardest at the kibbutz, but that was also one of the most impressive communities.

  

  Adam Neumann
  • Community

• I think that I need to work on being comfortable at being normal, everyday-ish on camera. Unlike a lot of actors, I think that's the thing that I'm not so comfortable with.

  

  Christina Ricci
  • Work
  • Everyday

• When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold.

  

  Klemens von Metternich
  • Cold
  • Paris

• I'm a pro-life, pro-gun Louisiana Democrat.

  

  Charlie Melancon
  • Life
  • Gun

• I just want to play baseball.

  

  David Ortiz
  • Baseball

• I think in Baghdad, any westerner, journalist or not, has a big dollar sign on his or her forehead. So, first and foremost, you are a ticket to unimaginable wealth. And that makes any trips out of the safe zones very risky.

  

  Yaroslav Trofimov
  • Thinking
  • Dollars
  • Baghdad

• I gave a LOT of unnecessary head. And I know that guys are going to argue with me about this. 'Oh, Margaret, there's no such thing as unnecessary head! All head is necessary! All head is wanted and needed in the world. I run a home for unnecessary head.'

  

  Margaret Cho
  • World
  • Home

• Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly, no good thing.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Envy
  • Destruction

• It must not simply be taken for granted that a given set of ill-assorted people, for no other reason than because it is Christmas, will be joyful to be reunited and to break bread together.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • People
  • Together
  • Taken

• Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Taken
  • Drug
  • Paranoia