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

• Sit up, join up, get on line, get in touch, find out who's raising hell and join them. No use waiting on a bunch of wussy politicians.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Waiting
  • Hell
  • Politician

• The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Powerful
  • Winning
  • Ability

• Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Kids
  • Always
  • Vision

• 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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