Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

If you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended.

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• For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Good
  • Career
  • Actors

• It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Nice
  • Year
  • Achievement

• I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Kids
  • Band
  • Cool

• Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • World
  • Together
  • Democracy

• In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Live
  • America
  • Freedom

• I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Time
  • Wife
  • Ending

• Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Music
  • Believe

• I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Think
  • Opportunities
  • Actress

• When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Women
  • Hands
  • Kiss

• The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Age
  • Museum
  • 19th-Century

• Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one - none, certainly, of anything like a similar importance - to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Death

• Her blue eyes sought the west afar,For lovers love the western star.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Eyes
  • Star
  • Blue

• We have to always look ahead enough moves to be well prepared, even for victory!

  Garry Kasparov
  • Victory

• I don’t have all the answers. I don’t know anyone who does. But this is certain: too many people have lost their lives who shouldn’t have.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Lost

• I like a book. I like to read for four hours at a stretch. I think very few are the young people who are even capable of reading for four hours at a stretch, because it's such a bizarre thing for them to do. I am mourning this.

  

  Lee Smith
  • People
  • Book
  • Reading

• Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Experience
  • Brave

• Specifically, the U.S. holds strength. Its own context makes it a very competitive country, but I believe that if we recognize how interdependent the U.S. with its neighbors from the North and the South, we are part of NAFTA, a trade agreement.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Believe
  • Country

• I started studying business and finance in Edinburgh as a backup plan. I was still making music many hours a day, and when I was at university, the electronic music boom started really taking off globally.

  

  Kygo
  • Music
  • Business

• I'm probably a more intentional acoustic player than I am an electric player because of lack of influences. I just play acoustic to see what happens.

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
  • Happens
  • Because
  • Electric

• We went through the records and we found over five hundred of his patients who were alive and well five years after their treatment, with no cancer. And Dr. Burton didn't selectively give us these. These were "take what you want. Here are the patients I treated." So there was statistical improvement - more so than any cancer institution in the United States could show.

  

  Gary Null
  • Cancer
  • Records
  • Alive

• In this dangerous world that we live in, where hatred and violence and natural disasters sometimes collide to almost overwhelm us, we each can help in some way.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • World
  • Live
  • Help

• I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be able to keep myself from regretting bitterly the life that has brought me to such a pass; but I disown that regret. I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Die

• If you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Dying
  • Differences
  • Psychedelic