Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

I'm meeting my obligations, somehow, always have, without ever truly working, without ever putting my shoulder to the wheel for the man. Of course I had to deal dope to do this!

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• I'm not a machista that tells his girl what she has to put on. I let her be herself.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • Girl
  • Clothes
  • Machista

• I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.

  

  Adam McKay
  • School
  • High
  • Comedy

• People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • People
  • Remember
  • Forget

• She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Up
  • She
  • Game

• I try to communicate in a way that allows people in on what's going on. What's better than references to popular culture?

  

  Bart Chilton
  • People
  • Culture
  • Better

• I am in love with my La Cornue custom-made stove - it's a dream to use and my favourite part of the kitchen.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Dream
  • Kitchen
  • Custom-made

• You know, I have seven children, so I guess I know some things about life.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Life
  • Children
  • Guess

• If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Guy
  • English
  • Wrong

• Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.

  

  Len Wein
  • Time
  • God
  • Stories

• No matter who you are, no matter what your culture is, it is absolutely possible to look out and extend yourself in such a way, that you can connect to other people and find that we are more alike than we are different.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Different
  • Culture

• The bigger your head, the easier to fill your shoes.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Shoes
  • Head
  • Easier

• If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble, sweep streets as Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Poetry
  • Pictures
  • Shakespeare

• For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Importance
  • Subject
  • Convey

• A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Husband
  • Awake
  • Sleek

• The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other.

  

  JR artist
  • Social Media
  • Each Other
  • Connecting

• When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night...

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Die
  • Vegetarian
  • Assures

• Be of good cheer, miracles do happen.

  

  Kay WalkingStick
  • Happen
  • Cheer
  • Miracles

• You have to do things that do good for you and when there's an uncharted course, you have to figure out how to get through it.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Figures
  • Courses
  • Uncharted

• I'm meeting my obligations, somehow, always have, without ever truly working, without ever putting my shoulder to the wheel for the man. Of course I had to deal dope to do this!

  

  Terence McKenna
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