Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it's not treated - if there's not pharmacological intervention - it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.

Terence McKenna

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• Personality
• Existence
• Ego
• Treated
• Intervention
• Constellations

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• The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.

  

  Nancy Allen
  • God
  • Love
  • Funny

• Mo'Nique is so full of love. I've been describing her as the tree in 'Pocahontas.' She's so wise and loving. She is just everything.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Wise
  • Tree
  • Loving

• The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.

  

  Adam Dell
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Support

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

  

  Harold Taylor
  • Time
  • Important
  • Ahead

• I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Laundry

• To make an album like 'Love Letter,' everything's got to be about love. Everything has to have a great feeling when you listen to it.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Like

• People were stopping me on the street to say, 'Oh my God, it's Crazy Eyes!' Which is kind of a funny thing to have people shout at you on the street.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • People
  • God
  • Funny

• But it's not just a game of finding literary references.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Game
  • Finding
  • Literary

• If you leave me waiting 'round for hours and then call on me to do something, I need to be able to do it straight away. That's my job, like your job is to do what you do.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Job
  • Me
  • Waiting

• He took me under his wing when I first came to the Rams and taught me everything – his technique in the pass rush, how to play off blockers, and how to make the big play.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Me
  • Play
  • Taught

• There's a crazy amount of goodwill, and I don't know where it came from, and I don't understand, but the more I pay attention to it, the more it's going to sting when it flips, so I think I'm almost subconsciously cultivating this naivety to it all.

  

  Feist
  • Think
  • Know
  • Attention

• My death scene in 'The Salton Sea' is really weird. I mean, I get shot in the head. What experience can you possibly draw from? There's nothing you can compare it to, really.

  

  Chandra West
  • Experience
  • Death
  • Weird

• I see songs in colors; I see days of the week. Each day of the week I relate to a gender, and it's very weird. I can taste words sometimes. It's very strange.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • Words
  • Weird

• I look younger; I feel younger. I'm in no rush to grow up or seem older to people.

  

  Danielle Panabaker
  • People
  • Up

• It is definitely a challenge to play Nathan, but the more different he is from myself, the more interesting the character becomes for me.

  

  James Lafferty
  • Different
  • Character
  • Interesting

• I was someone who believed that every day should be different from the last.

  

  Claire Messud
  • Different

• These are human beings with real lives and the uncertainty and the fear that any of them face right now could be ended at a stroke if we had all the candidates for prime minister simply say that the right to remain here is not in question and I call again upon Theresa May and on the current prime minster to do that. That would be the humane thing to do and I even at this stage hope that that's a direction they will take.

  

  Nicola Sturgeon
  • Humans
  • Faces
  • Uncertainty

• Health food makes me sick.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Food
  • Health
  • Sick

• I never wished to have to escape from my own land.

  

  Arturo Sandoval
  • Land
  • Escape

• ... let us unite, not in spite of our differences, but through them. For differences can never be wiped away, and life would be so much the poorer without them. Let all human races keep their own personalities, and yet come together, not in a uniformity that is dead, but in a unity that is living.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Together
  • Personality

• In the US the problem has been, for instance, that Nazis have rights of free expression, right? But other kinds of racist speech is not protected. And you have to link the speech to conduct or to a certain kind of threat against minority population. I know that in Europe, this kind of framework doesn't exist in the same way so it's very difficult to make the analogy.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Problem
  • Speech
  • Protected

• The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it's not treated - if there's not pharmacological intervention - it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Problem
  • Personality
  • Existence