Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

If you actually look at the etymology of the word 'hallucination', what it's come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That's the meaning of 'hallucination', to wander in the mind.

Terence McKenna

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• I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.

  

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• As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the aging Europeans become more magnanimous toward destitute newcomers who do not speak the national language or assimilate into the national culture but consume its benefits?

  

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• Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.

  

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• I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.

  

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• Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.

  

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• The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'

  

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• We can't legislate human nature.

  

  Taya Kyle
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• The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

  

  Edmund Burke
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• For each project I do, I try to surprise myself, do the unexpected, and change my own status quo. From the One Laptop Per Child, the Herman Miller Sayl, or the latest Movado watch collection, there is always an insecurity about being able to do something important. I think each of those projects makes me feel like we have progressed.

  

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• The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes – ah, that is where the art resides.

  

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• Investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.

  

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• I was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audition for one play in high school - 'Auntie Mame.' I got a small part as the fiancee who comes on in the end. I got laughs. I wasn't shy at all doing the part. I can do anything on stage and write it off as a character.

  

  Laurie Metcalf
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• Being on 'American Idol,' the blessings of glasses have rained from the sky. I really would like to start a Danny line or a Gokey line of eyeglasses.

  

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• We have brave hearts and won't retreat. We are not going back; we are going forward.

  

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• During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois.

  

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• We often hear of a male director directing a great indie and immediately being offered the next huge comic book movie. Rarely, if ever, does this happen to a woman.

  

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• I see what grief does, how it strips you bare, shows you all the things you don't want to know. That loss doesn't end, that there isn't a moment where you are done, when you can neatly put it away and move on.

  

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• Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.

  

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• I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail.

  

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• If you actually look at the etymology of the word 'hallucination', what it's come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That's the meaning of 'hallucination', to wander in the mind.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Language
  • Wander