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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Look at the films of Walt Disney: 'Snow White' came out in February 1938, and I can't think of another film from that year that's watched as much. The same is true of 'Bambi,' 'Dumbo'... even, frankly, 'Toy Story,' which is probably watched more than any other movie of 1995.
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I gave someone a perverse argument not so long ago about why advertising is better than movies. You want to hear it? Movies operate from a really disingenuous premise, that people are heroes. I know a lot of people and have had an opportunity over the years to observe them. Are they heroes...? Let's put it this way. Advertising tries something simpler and more believable: Products as heroes. I guess the idea is: When all else fails, put your faith in conditioner.
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Thoughts would go in and out of my mind, but I didn't want to believe that he could have done it.
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I don't really care where I go because wherever I go, they're going to get a very talented, driven guy that's going to get every inch of his potential out, max everything I have in my body out.
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Red held me at arm’s length, grinning. 'Welcome to the family, Half Moon,' he said.
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'But I tried though,' he says. 'Goddammit, I sure as hell did that much, now, didn't I?'
