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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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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One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.
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I'm her protection! I don't care if it's in this world or the next. Just show me how to get where she is, and I'll be there for her. ~Stark
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I don't look like no kiwi bird.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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I believe ability can get you to the top,” says coach John Wooden, “but it takes character to keep you there.… It’s so easy to … begin thinking you can just ‘turn it on’ automatically, without proper preparation. It takes real character to keep working as hard or even harder once you’re there. When you read about an athlete or team that wins over and over and over, remind yourself, ‘More than ability, they have character.'
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Postmodernism is what you have when the modernization process is complete and nature is gone for good. It is a more fully human world than the older one, but one in which 'culture' has become a veritable 'second nature.'
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I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.
