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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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 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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Establishing a friendship after divorce takes great effort and a lot of swallowing of your pride and ego.
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Now I'm a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.
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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.
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XRP is solving a payments problem, and it's very efficient to do that.
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When you are a politician, it means to work for the benefit of the country, not to stay home. In politics, it ends only when one dies.
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Protecting free speech is not only a matter of principle, it is also pragmatic.
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Any enterprise that is serious about experiencing the power of Big Data in real-time should be looking at DataTorrent.
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The topic of sexual education makes me nuts, because kids are certainly not now and have rarely ever been "clueless" about what adults do and delude themselves about keeping from their kids. Especially now that so many of them are carrying the entire internet around in their pockets.
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I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don't know what I'm going to come at you with.
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I don't think that I could ever be a strict dad. I never grew up with anybody strict in my life... I'm not saying I'm a role model by any means or anything. I think the fact that I wasn't told what not to do all the time - my spirit kind of told me things that I shouldn't - I got to develop on my own. It's part of your common sense.
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Publicly leading a church in prayer deserves thoughtful preparation.
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I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.
