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

• In Bollywood, you have to do one film at a time, and there are no mixed schedules. And doing four films at a time is out of the question. Telugu film industry works very differently. But the kind of films I'm getting here are better than what I've been offered in Bollywood.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Question
  • Better

• 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

• Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Promise
  • Principles
  • High-Minded

• Whenever there is a job to be taken on of a kind calculated to make Humanity shudder, the cry goes up, ‘Let Wooster do it.’

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Up
  • Job
  • Taken

• We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

  

  Stewart Udall
  • Power
  • Greatness
  • Confused

• The industrial food system is so cruel and so horrific in its treatment of animals. It never asks the question: 'Should a pig be allowed to express its pig-ness?'

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Food
  • Question

• It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • God
  • Die
  • Problem

• 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