Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

It's possible to see the whole human growth movement of the 1970s as a wish to continue the inward quest without having to put yourself on the line in the way you had to when you took 250 gamma of LSD. And I think all these other methods are efficacious, but I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off.

Terence McKenna

• Wish
• Growth
• Humans
• Lines
• Inward
• Hallucinogens

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• Being Human clothing was first launched in France, Belgium and Spain, where the brand's philosophy of look good, do good is connecting with people and not just Salman Khan.

  

  Salman Khan
  • People
  • Good
  • Philosophy

• Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Good
  • Man
  • Doubt

• I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Always
  • Politics
  • Student

• I've always had a longstanding dream, ever since I was a kid, where I was running on a big lake of ice and I kept running and kept running, just about to where I was trying to get to, and I fell through the ice, and then I couldn't find the hole where I fell through to get back out again.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Trying
  • Dream
  • Running

• Some journalists are pestier than others, so I find out where the pests are. I am careful with my actors and actresses. I come back and tell them, 'Watch out for this one or that one.' People are surprised I do that. But I watch out for them even after the movie is over.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Movie
  • Actors
  • Careful

• If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll find a rock, a stick, or a piece of wood - and believe me, it's gonna be a brawl.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Rock

• Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • May
  • Day
  • Pain

• There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Different

• Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Nature
  • Creativity

• I am interviewing people with a spirit of genuine interest and compassion, and therefore, the general tone of the site is one of genuine interest and compassion. The moment that culture changes, 'Humans of New York' is no longer viable.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • People
  • Culture
  • Compassion

• I want to impact some lives down the road, one by one, and I want people to look at my story and my life as an inspiration.

  

  Demetrius Shipp, Jr.
  • People
  • Life
  • Road

• Anyone who's been reading my stuff can see that there's a lot of tracks being laid for future stories.

  

  Jason Aaron
  • Future
  • Reading

• Sproxil will help combat the multi-billion dollar counterfeit drug market, empower customers, and give them the resources to make informed pharmaceutical purchasing decisions.

  

  Jacqueline Novogratz
  • Help
  • Drug

• You have to work hard each day and try to figure out what's going on and try to get better each day.

  

  Billy Butler
  • Work

• I'm very much a believer that it's action that matters much more so than, you know, the flurry of political promises and statements and slogans that are used during political campaigns.

  

  Christine Lagarde
  • Political
  • Action

• What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don't even really understand that equality hasn't happened with the pay force.

  

  bell hooks
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

  

  Plato

• The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping.

  

  Michael Hutchence INXS
  • English

• A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!

  

  Pope Francis
  • Good
  • Prayer
  • Catholic

• 'True Blood' is truly a playground. You get to go in and just let loose and completely just have fun and play around. There is so much freedom on set.

  

  Lindsay Pulsipher
  • True
  • Fun
  • Freedom

• I always find that it's when a script is not detailed, then I have to do more work as an actor.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • Work
  • Actor
  • Script

• I'm an avid juicer and a healthy eater.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Healthy
  • Eater

• Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

  

  Jean Baudrillard
  • Wish

• It's possible to see the whole human growth movement of the 1970s as a wish to continue the inward quest without having to put yourself on the line in the way you had to when you took 250 gamma of LSD. And I think all these other methods are efficacious, but I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Wish
  • Growth
  • Humans