Ken Kesey Quotes
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Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?
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We have just been working hard to have people to come out to vote and to make sure people understand how important the election is.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.
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That's how you live. You participate. You take risks.
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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
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Email is a senior citizen. It's been around since at least the 1960s in one form or another. In the 1990s and early 2000s, there was a hot competition among consumer email services like Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and Gmail.
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We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing left to explore on Earth.
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Eurasia is the world's axial supercontinent. A power that dominated Eurasia would exercise decisive influence over two of the world's three most economically productive regions: Western Europe and East Asia.
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If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.
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If I was bigger I might not have had the same skill set as I do, the speed.
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Why should a filmmaker turn over the irreplaceable asset, the movie, to a distribution center?
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The more important argument against grade curves is that they create an atmosphere that's toxic by pitting students against one another. At best, it creates a hypercompetitive culture, and at worst, it sends students the message that the world is a zero-sum game: Your success means my failure.
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In my next life, I'm going to be a rock star. I was a ballerina in my last life.
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Housing has led our nation's economic expansion over the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New housing starts and home sales hit record levels from 2003 through 2005.
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I think intellectuals should be fascinated by my rise, what it reveals about the time. My critics are irrelevant, though. It tells how much I'm getting to them by how vitriolic they are. They refuse to deal with the ideas. But reviews don't reflect anything; the books are selling. A friend told me, 'The attacks make you.'
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And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
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Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began A mighty hunter, and his prey was man.
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Good and evil ! good and evil ! ye are mingled inextricably in the web of our being ; and who may unthread the darker yarn ?
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When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
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There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.
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It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.
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Every man is like the company he wont to keep.
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Alla you! Quit bugging me, goddammit!
