Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

What I like to talk about, and what I have very little competition in terms of talking about, is the content of the psychedelic experience.

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• One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Things
  • Acting

• I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.

  

  Gallagher
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Courage is found in unlikely places.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Courage
  • Found
  • Places

• I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Matter
  • Accept
  • Someone

• There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
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  • Year
  • Leak

• Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Time
  • Book
  • Boat

• The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• The sculptor must learn to reproduce the surface, which means all that vibrates on the surface: spirit, soul, love, passion - life. ... Sculpture is thus the art of hollows and mounds, not of smoothness, or even polished planes.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Life
  • Art
  • Soul

• Once upon a time, I was a climate-change skeptic.

  

  James Balog
  • Time

• I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.

  

  David Caruso
  • Great

• All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers. In its voluntary character it is precisely similar to an association for mutual protection against fire or shipwreck.

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • Character
  • Fire
  • Insurance

• I'm certainly not an uptight home owner.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Home

• Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them.

  

  Michael Hutchence INXS
  • Men
  • Women
  • Together

• I'm working relentlessly at becoming a better fighter than I was yesterday. I think I've really shown that I'm a more evolved fighter these days than I've ever been.

  

  Alistair Overeem

• Now I'm a wife and a mother of two. It's a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage, because that's what it's like to be together for so long and go through what we've been through. I can't really have that relationship with them anymore.

  

  Gwen Stefani No Doubt
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  • Long
  • Together

• I wasn't a bad kid. My dad left when I was young, so I didn't have much discipline, not that I'm making excuses. I was always out and about and had a good time as a kid, so I've done alright.

  

  Danny Dyer
  • Time
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  • Done

• The time that I have on this earth should just be filled with good times.

  

  Kyle Kinane
  • Time
  • Good
  • Earth

• To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline - training - is about.

  

  James Clavell
  • World
  • Good
  • Mind

• A good thing never ends.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Good
  • Never
  • Good Thing

• Those of us who work in this field see a developing potential for nearly a total control of human emotional status, mental functioning, and will to act. These human phenomena can be started, stopped or eliminated by the use of various types of chemical substances. What we can produce with our science now will affect the entire society." A "utopia" could be found - providing "a sense of stability and certainty, whether realistic or not.

  

  Nathan S. Kline
  • Emotional
  • Human
  • Potential

• My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.

  

  Viktor Vekselberg
  • Opinion
  • Media
  • Too Much

• I always say that I need competition, and I need competition every week, and in Spain, I was at an amazing club, but I had four matches a year: Barcelona v Real Madrid, Real Madrid v Barcelona, and after that, we'd win 4-0, 5-0, 4-1, 6-1.

  

  Jose Mourinho
  • Real
  • Amazing
  • Competition

• The Sochi Games is not only my second Olympics, but the 'retirement stage' for me, so I want to have a greater experience than any other competition before. In the past, I had strong concepts for short programs and lyrical ones for the long. But this time, it's the other way around.

  

  Kim Yuna
  • Time
  • Long
  • Experience

• What I like to talk about, and what I have very little competition in terms of talking about, is the content of the psychedelic experience.

  

  Terence McKenna
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