Ken Kesey Quotes
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
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I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.
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I have lots of fans, they are mostly under the age of 12, boys and girls.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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I'm not a boastful person. I like my actions to speak for me.
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The most important thing that I've figured out is that things work out the way they're supposed to. We try to have all this control and fashion things the way we want, but everything happens for a reason, and in the end it works out the way it's supposed to.
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Love stories thrive on hope.
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I love Levon Helm - he's one of my favorite guys.
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People always assume if you're vegetarian you can just live on cheese and meanwhile cheese is awful for your body even if tastes so good. I'm a massive animal lover too. Being vegan has been so good for me. I've never felt better.
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Round numbers are always false.
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Men who work to make it as computer whizzes or owners of black Porsches... are confused when they're told they are not vulnerable enough. We can't fall in love with men who appear invulnerable and expect vulnerability. Why did he want a black Porsche? Because he never saw an ugly woman get out of one.
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But she wears short skirts, I wear t-shirts.She's cheer captain and I'm on the bleachers,Dreaming 'bout the day when you wake up and findThat what you're lookin' for has been here the whole time.If you could see that I'm the one who understands you,Been here all along so why can't you see?You belong with me;You belong with me.
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You need the rhetoric of others, the aversion it inspires, in order to find the way out of your own.
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Writers are outsiders, and usually not by their own choosing. It’s why they’re writers. If they didn’t feel alienated from human experience, they wouldn’t feel so drawn to writing to make sense of their lives. It’s not the outsider’s facility for language that makes her a writer — many a student body president or homecoming queen can turn a phrase — but her ability to howl at the moon, on the page.
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The dirty energy crowd can be offset only by the power of the rising clean energy sector and the American people, aroused across party lines.
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That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.
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Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.
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'But I tried though,' he says. 'Goddammit, I sure as hell did that much, now, didn't I?'
