Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.

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• Cottonmouth is the result of having to react to his circumstances. He had to, in some ways, take control of the situation and own his circumstances. But as a result of that, he became a person he didn't intend to become.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Control
  • Person
  • Situation

• Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Children
  • Family
  • Free

• Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Wonder

• I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• Sports of every sort had always appealed to me.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Me
  • Always
  • Sports

• I got a big mouth.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Big
  • Got
  • Mouth

• Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Know
  • Years
  • Dangerous

• Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Will
  • Despair
  • Imperfection

• Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Wisdom
  • Mistake
  • Enemy

• If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • You
  • Die
  • Find

• I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Understand
  • Tea
  • Anger

• I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • People
  • Music
  • Find

• Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions of learning for the Negro, but the freedom of action on the part of these same universities has been curtailed in proportion as they are indebted to white philanthropies.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Great
  • Men
  • Freedom

• Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?

  

  Vernon Duke
  • Why
  • New York
  • Autumn

• The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Writing
  • Yourself
  • Movies

• I've been racketeered on.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Been

• I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Music
  • Different
  • Myself

• If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?

  

  Randall Terry
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Moral

• Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of your money.

  

  Jim Rogers
  • Money

• It worries me that western journalists, especially British ones, call everyone they don't like 'marginal.'

  

  Margarita Simonyan

• The difference between a white man and an Indian is this- A white man wants to leave money to his children. An Indian wants to leave forests.

  

  Winona LaDuke
  • Men
  • Children

• Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Family
  • Animal
  • Japanese

• In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Black
  • Culture
  • Dark

• Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Culture
  • Ideas
  • Animal