Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

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• For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Good
  • Career
  • Actors

• One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Country
  • Greatest
  • Grit

• I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Kids
  • Band
  • Cool

• I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Think
  • Problems
  • Discussion

• It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Countries
  • Unacceptable

• One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Books
  • Morality
  • Reasons

• In cross-country skiing, athletes propel themselves over distances of ten and twenty miles - a physical challenge that places intense demands on the ability of their red blood cells to deliver oxygen to their muscles.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Country
  • Challenge
  • Red

• People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Talk
  • Expect

• I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead.

  

  Rachel True
  • I Can
  • Lead
  • Project

• I feel like woman was brought to this world to have family and kids.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Family
  • Kids

• I didn't have the welfare. I didn't have the proper education. I didn't have these things. That's why it's almost like a complex in me that I want to explode myself in my films.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Education
  • Me
  • Welfare

• I have always been a movie buff and had no interest in any games and sports. I do not even watch cricket, which is one of the favourite games of most of my friends. However, I have become a wrestling fan after 'Dangal.'

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Friends
  • Movie
  • Sports

• The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Age
  • Museum
  • 19th-Century

• To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Breakfast

• A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Writing
  • Mother
  • Political

• I'm not technically rich, but I do have a lot of shit that I don't need, and I refuse to share with others.

  

  Maria Bamford

• As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming.

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • Real
  • True
  • Relationship

• Every body is a book of blood;Wherever we're opened, we're red.

  

  Clive Barker
  • Book
  • Red

• America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • America
  • Soul
  • Freedom

• For a few years, there were three shows running on Broadway that I had all opened: 'Chicago,' 'Wicked' and 'Anything Goes.'

  

  Joel Grey
  • Running
  • Chicago

• Let’s start with the most prominent ecological crisis of our time: global warming. When you look seriously at the numbers, you find that switching from a meat-based to a plant-based diet would do more to curb and reverse global warming than any other initiative.

  

  T. Colin Campbell
  • Time
  • Looks
  • Plant

• Notwithstanding my present incompetency, I am beginning to translate the New Testament, being extremely anxious to get some parts of Scripture, at least, into an intelligible shape, if for no other purpose than to read, as occasion offers, to the Burmans I meet with.

  

  Adoniram Judson
  • Purpose
  • Present
  • Beginning

• You have to start with the notion that you pick the actor who's going to embody the role, the best person that you can find. If you don't start with that then it sort of defies the whole purpose of trying to make the best film that you can make.

  

  Christopher Meledandri
  • Trying
  • Purpose
  • Film

• The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Purpose
  • Dying