Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.
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I am always plagued with 'I'm not skinny enough, I'm not in shape.' I am not naturally this super-svelte kind of girl. I'm okay with that in my personal life. But it is kind of hard at times. I feel inadequate, I suppose?
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Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.
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When I taught, the way in which we got evaluated is what I used to call the drive-by evaluation. Somebody would come in for 20 minutes with a checklist, and that would be your evaluation. So it was clearly a snapshot.
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I definitely don't sit down every day and make a new song.
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For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is 'Justice to all. Appeasement to none.' This is our secularism.
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I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot.
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I was actually born in L.A. My sisters and I were playing in a parking lot, and my dad was like, 'Nah, nah, nah. Let's go give 'em some grass.'
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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
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I've been in relationships in the past where communication wasn't great, and when it is, it makes it so much easier to talk to each other.
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I can usually tell when a woman is going through a divorce because they look so gaunt and tired and sad. It's just a huge sadness. It's horrible. It's like death. You mourn, but the person's still there.
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I love my work, but I don't like being in the spotlight. I was never going to be an actor, that's for sure.
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I'm not going to take something based on budget and do something just for the sake of it. I want to make good films.
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Until Americans feel that their core asset - their homes - are stabilized, they are not going to have the animal spirits and they will continue to have less buying power.
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And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril.
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Establishing a friendship after divorce takes great effort and a lot of swallowing of your pride and ego.
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No one looks at your hands to see how much they shake when you are interviewed to be a surgeon. The physical skills required are no greater than for writing cursive script. If an operation requires so much skill only a few surgeons can do it, you modify the operation to make it simpler.
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The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to collectivists, to people who believe that wealth is best obtained by redistribution, and that message is clear and concise . . . Egalitarianism is sinful; it's also cowardly.
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It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across their careers. 'The Autobiography of General Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs of the Civil War' is perhaps the best war memoir ever written.
