Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

In the absence of good scientific data about the effects of artificial hallucinogens it's good to stick to the natural ones.

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• My cares come from a very selfish place 'cause in reality I'm young, and I haven't had the experience to be mature yet.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Experience
  • Reality
  • Selfish

• Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • People
  • Music
  • Power

• I do not need a producer. I need only a good production manager. I need only a man who will give me money.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Good
  • Money
  • Man

• The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • You
  • Respect
  • White

• It's funny because before I joined the cast of 'Heroes,' I was an insomniac. I have suffered from insomnia for, like, so long. Now that I'm on the show, seriously - I sleep like a baby. I'm so tired all the time.

  

  Dana Davis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Funny

• Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Good
  • Art
  • Always

• It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • Words
  • Said
  • Follow

• I actually felt like I was starting a new career as a news reporter while playing in 'Pinocchio.'

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Career
  • New
  • News

• A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Good
  • Great
  • Song

• You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Better

• I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Life
  • Music
  • Rest

• I can be a guy's guy and go to a game. But at the end of the night, I can still get dressed up for a date. There are a million different personalities that are part of me.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Different
  • Guy

• Though it is perhaps expected for the bishop of Rome to warn against the idolatry of money, what is striking is how Francis suggests that not only God but also secular politics must outrank economic imperatives.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • God
  • Money

• I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then I have tried to walk a Christian life. And now that I'm getting older I realize that I'm walking even closer with my God.

  

  Andy Griffith
  • Life
  • God
  • Mother

• I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Nice

• Yes, I don't believe that the inter-Korean relationship has, quote, 'deteriorated' since I assumed office. Rather I believe that the relationship between the two Koreas is entering into a new phase - a time of transition. And so I think that the North Koreans are trying to see what they can build with this, with my new administration.

  

  Lee Myung-bak
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Trying

• The plain people, hereafter as in the past, will continue to make their own language, and the best that grammarians can do is to follow after it, haltingly, and not often with much insight into it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • Past

• Fairyland...Paradise...In this place and at this time, Marguerite could know that the one was a parable of the other and both were synonyms for something that had no name.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Paradise
  • No Name
  • Synonyms

• There is a false moral imperative that seems to be all-around us that treatment of depression, the medications and so on, are an artifice, and that it's not natural. And I think that's very misguided. It would be natural for people's teeth to fall out, but there is nobody militating against toothpaste, at least not in my circles.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Fall

• Deryn felt brilliant, rising through the air at the center off everyone's attention, like an acrobat aloft on a swing. She wanted to make a speech: Hey, all you sods, I can fly and you can't! A natural airman, in case you haven't noticed. And in conclusion, I'd like to add that I'm a girl and you can all get stuffed!

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Girl
  • Attention
  • Natural

• Sometimes its not the dark that we are afraid of, but the absence of light.

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Afraid

• In the absence of good scientific data about the effects of artificial hallucinogens it's good to stick to the natural ones.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Natural
  • Absence
  • Sticks