Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

No more do we create cultural artifacts that are simply our furniture, but now it's our thoughts, our values, are embodied in this digital stuff.

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• The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Up
  • May
  • Theory

• Our poker table is eight guys, and then I'm the ninth; I'm usually the only girl at the table.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Girl
  • Table
  • Poker

• I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Action

• I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Work
  • Goal
  • Movies

• I'm mostly vegetarian.

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • Vegetarian
  • Mostly

• I would rather be lying in a bed than changing one.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Lying
  • Changing
  • Bed

• The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Football

• It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Up
  • Best
  • Looking Forward

• I love Karlie Kloss. I want to bake cookies with her!

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Want
  • Cookies
  • Bake

• All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Knowledge
  • Human
  • Form

• I'm happy to be on a winning team. My individual success, that lasts for a short period of time. The success of being a part of the South, of Atlanta, which is now the hot bed of music, that's what's gonna last the longest. The fact that I contributed to planting our flag and moving music to my city, that's what I'm most proud of.

  

  T.I.
  • Time
  • Music
  • Happy

• The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'

  

  LeRoy Neiman

• When I testify, I'll testify. I don't need to sit around chewing my fingernails.

  

  Mark Fuhrman

• As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Producers
  • Bangs
  • Bucks

• We don't just live; we make.

  

  Dale Dougherty
  • Live
  • Just
  • Make

• I think the general public is going to be surprised by this. It's not out there yet.

  

  Hank Williams
  • Public
  • Surprised

• Carbon monoxide is an invisible killer, odorless and colorless. Keep generators a safe distance from your home, away from open doors, windows and vents. Don't take a chance.

  

  Hal Stratton
  • Home
  • Chance
  • Distance

• Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.

  

  Rachel Carson

• I tend to work best as a one-man Task Force, including even the roles of messenger, coffee maker and office cleaner.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Force
  • Coffee
  • Office

• Have you more faith in a spoonful of medicine than in the power that animates the living world?

  

  B. J. Palmer
  • World
  • Power
  • Faith

• What I do is I take action because I value the position I have, the career I have, the life I live, the people I interact with, my fanbase, my friends, however you want to say that. I value those relationships and I use the opportunities they present to me.

  

  Mike Vallely Black Flag
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Action

• I refuse to censor myself and kids will find their own way to my books and to all of the books that matter to them. As I write more honestly more kids will make their way toward me. And in subverting their repressive parents kids will learn the value of subverting the repressive nature of all authority figures.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Kids

• No more do we create cultural artifacts that are simply our furniture, but now it's our thoughts, our values, are embodied in this digital stuff.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Values
  • Stuff
  • Digital