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.

Terence McKenna

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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?

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Life
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  • Skinny

• Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.

  

  Vernon Duke
  • May
  • You
  • Paris

• 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.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Way
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• I definitely don't sit down every day and make a new song.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
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  • Day
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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.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Party
  • Justice
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• I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Remember
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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.'

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Dad
  • Born
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• Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Thought
  • Fortitude
  • Marshall

• 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.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Great
  • Past
  • Communication

• 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.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Death
  • Sad
  • Tired

• 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.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • Work

• 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.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Good

• Establishing a friendship after divorce takes great effort and a lot of swallowing of your pride and ego.

  

  Yolanda Hadid
  • Great
  • Effort
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• Now I'm a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.

  

  Robert Plant Led Zeppelin

• I'm remixing an R.E.M. track called 'I've Been High' from their last album, 'Reveal.' It's a beautiful song, but record execs didn't put it out as a single because it didn't sound like the R.E.M. we're used to. So I asked Michael Stipe if I could have the tapes to do a remix, and he agreed.

  

  Lukas Haas
  • High
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• XRP is solving a payments problem, and it's very efficient to do that.

  

  Brad Garlinghouse

• When people ask me if I'm liberal or conservative, I say, 'Yeah.' I'm both of them. To be a liberal means to be open-minded and generous and open to new ideas. And to be conservative means to hold onto things that are important, things that shouldn't be cast aside.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
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  • Ideas

• In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee? So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Happy
  • Wise
  • Despise

• We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it.

  

  Jerry Pournelle
  • Science
  • Single
  • Military

• I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Preparation
  • Marathon
  • Calisthenics