Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

What people notice about when they are on LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.

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• I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.

  

  Fleur East
  • School
  • Dad
  • Day

• The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Person

• In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Technology
  • Embrace
  • U.S.

• The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Light

• Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Die

• I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Up
  • Great
  • Know

• I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Great
  • Chicago
  • Exchange

• It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it's the kind of thing that makes me feel like - even as it's been bestowed upon me - I must continue to live up to what it means... Being the younger laureate in the age of social media is a new challenge.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • Live
  • Age

• In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • Business
  • Science

• Around them the gawping locals sat, amazed with an amazement that never grew less…

  

  Anthony Burgess

• The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• I am after ME his response on the question what he was after, in his sober painting in 1963 'Sun in an empty room'.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • Question
  • Painting
  • Sun

• The work I have done in private practice has been assisting companies and organizations to work with an incredibly complex federal government. I'm proud of the impact I've had for these organizations, including organizations here in Pinellas County.

  

  David Jolly
  • Work
  • Done
  • Proud

• I'd rather go by bus.

  

  Prince Charles

• When you're young, you don't have a lot of control over even basic things in your life - where you live, what you eat, where you go during the day, how you get there. You don't have a lot of control, and that can feel sort of unstable in its own way because you don't get a say in those basic things.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Life
  • Live
  • Control

• I always loved cars. I used to play 'Need for Speed' all the time... any racing game.

  

  Nick van de Wall
  • Time
  • Game

• I'm a real hoarder.

  

  Lily James
  • Real

• Obviously Mad TV, SNL are one kind of show, whereas The State belongs to the kind of show that is entirely conceived written and performed by a set group that existed before the TV show.

  

  David Wain
  • Mad

• It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I had were also incorporated into the script.

  

  Chiaki Kuriyama
  • Pretty

• I am speaking for tens of millions, and maybe more, around the world, who know the truth about Iraq. Who know that the real criminals are in Washington. Not in the United Nations. The real criminals are in the White House, not in the Elysee Palace. The real criminals are in the Congress, not in the anti-war movement.

  

  George Galloway
  • World
  • Real
  • Truth

• I like that talented chefs are able to keep coming up with new ways of preparing food - it really is an art form.

  

  Lisa Hanawalt
  • Up
  • Art
  • Food

• I'm not a big fan of the George Lucas school of meddling and tinkering. That's a slippery slope.

  

  Mark Waid
  • School

• I like the idea of getting to dress up, like to do a Barry Lyndon or something about the Napoleonic period, the grand army retreating from Moscow. I understand that there's a craft to acting and a lot of people work hard at it. I just know that music is my first love. I love music, I love film, and I love clothes.

  

  Ian Astbury The Cult
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• What people notice about when they are on LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • People
  • World
  • Freaky