Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
		
	 
	
		
	
	
	
		What the churches are peddling is high abstraction, and you really have to work yourself up into a lather to be able to accept that as worthy of that kind of attention. The psychedelic subset of society is into an experience, and it's accessible.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Terence McKenna 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Cameron Mackintosh 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You lose the speed before the stamina. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Haile Gebrselassie 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Everyone has a breakup in their lives, and I think everyone should experience love. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hansika Motwani 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I like to pour my wines for people. I watch their eyes, I can see what they'll like. Most people say they don't like dry wine because they haven't had a dry wine that's clean and fruity, instead of a big, oaky thing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Pat Paulsen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Wayne Dyer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		To each his own, but I just think that we women have a certain body type. As Indian women, we have a beautiful body type. And I believe in the celebration of curves. Whether it's Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz, Zeenat Aman or Shilpa Shetty, they are very curvaceous and beautiful. I don't know why anyone would want to fight that. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vidya Balan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barbara Boxer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A friend of mine is a chef in Bali, and another friend said, 'God, he's like Brad Pitt,' and I said, 'Yeah, I think he's more like arm Pitt,' 'cause, you know, 'Brad Pitt' would be a bit of an overstatement. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Owain Yeoman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I prefer if friends come over to my office and we talk our heart out over a cup of coffee. I feel that no one talks freely at industry bashes. Everyone has to behave in a certain way, and I think no one is real there. We can't have heart-to-heart conversations, and I start feeling uncomfortable at such dos. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nawazuddin Siddiqui 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We need to make more original movies, and audiences would do well to support original movies for the future of the medium. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edgar Wright 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yayoi Kusama 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kate Bush 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Yoga has had a profound effect on my songs and performances. I don't meditate in the traditional style of sitting and doing nothing. I prefer the zen of paying attention, such as the meditation of yoga flow, or walking meditations. I also consider singing, surfing and gardening to very meditative. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jason Mraz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		How I was raised is what I am today. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Joan Chen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness; and even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections, is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Francis Bacon 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		What the churches are peddling is high abstraction, and you really have to work yourself up into a lather to be able to accept that as worthy of that kind of attention. The psychedelic subset of society is into an experience, and it's accessible. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Terence McKenna