Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in all systems.

Terence McKenna

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• I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Music
  • American
  • Know

• We're gonna get high, high, high, when we're low. The fires burn from better days. She scream why, oh why? I said I don't know!

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Why
  • She
  • High

• A friend had a couple of pairs made up for me, ... I think the album is coming out.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Couple

• I'll come back to New York. I think I'll start focusing in more on the entertainment business. I have been doing some of that already, all kinds of monkey business. But I'm all over the place, literally.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Thinking
  • Business
  • Kind

• Class Day is a terrible name for a day when you don't have to go to any class.

  

  Andy Samberg
  • Names
  • Class
  • Terrible

• Leadership isn't just legislation, that it's a matter of persuading people and giving them confidence, and bringing them together and setting a tone.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Together
  • Giving

• When trying to explain anything, I usually find that the Bible, that great collection of magnificent and varied poetry, has said it before in the best possible way.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Way

• The horrible thing about Death of princess Diana - the sacrificial lamb, which she was. And I believe, in a sense, John Kennedy, Jr. was the same thing. These are people that we loved so much that we drove them berserk with all the attention and they basically didn't have any particular stellar talents. They were just in some kind of a position somewhere where we fixed on them and they became, literally, sacrificial lambs

  

  Don McLean
  • People
  • Believe
  • She

• It's really confusing, but I loved the fact that it just made me think.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Fact
  • Confusing

• Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

  

  David Broder

• The university is a series of individual entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance about parking.

  

  Clark Kerr
  • Together
  • University
  • Entrepreneurs

• Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?

  

  Emile Zola
  • Dream
  • Regret
  • Firsts

• Football is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place, and to play the game, and these are the best of training for any game of life.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Life
  • Good
  • Game

• Over the past 10 years of being famous, my relationship with the camera has not been a pleasant one.

  

  Ryan Phillippe
  • Relationship
  • Famous
  • Camera

• At Kiel, as elsewhere, a day goes by somehow or other.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Day
  • Somehow

• Movie-making taught me to better appreciate the benefits and joy of a good collaboration.

  

  Steve Taylor 16 Horsepower
  • Movie
  • Collaboration
  • Benefits

• When I was little, like Maleficent, I was told that I was different - and I felt out of place, and too loud, too full of fire, never good at sitting still, never good at fitting in. And then one day I realized something, something I hope you all realize. Different is good.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Good
  • Different
  • Hope

• We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in all systems.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Realizing
  • Claims
  • Anarchy