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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Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
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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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It's difficult to identify why two cultures will react differently to the same sport.
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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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You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
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Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and almost mindless self-abnegation. One other factor is difficult to predetermine: without a certain admixture of hysteria - sometimes masking as self-obsession, sometimes even counterfeiting incipient madness - performers, at once acrobats, artists, and animals, make little public impression.
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My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.
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The moment you know that this is the person with whom you want to spend the rest of your life, you should start the engagement process. Once you know this, the nature of the relationship changes. You view actions differently, the pressure to have sex increases, and your relationship with others is affected. If you're considering getting engaged, write out the sentence Staying married is hard work fifty times. ...Though I say this with some humor, I think these points bear repeating: Don't underestimate the work involved, but don't panic either.
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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.
