Ken Kesey Quotes
But just as soon as we got to the pool he said he did wish something mighta been done, though, and dove into the water.
Quotes to Explore
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There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
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If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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'SNL' can be a stressful environment, and I am panicking constantly, but I guess I keep it pretty internal.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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It scares me to think that one day I'm not going to be in school anymore.
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In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is 'My god is greater than your god,' and we're fighting in the name of our god, we have to find a way to peaceably coexist, spiritually.
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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
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I can be a bit extreme. I'll spend too much time running round the park, doing yoga and drinking green tea. I can get a bit obsessive. I have to rein it in sometimes.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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Last year, in the year 2008, it just became normal to watch great American institutions crumble, almost dissolve like sand.
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I would rather hear the pleased laugh of a child over some feature of my exhibition than receive as I did the flattering compliments of the Prince of Wales.
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I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly.
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It's hard to have a bad hair day when you're famous.
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But just as soon as we got to the pool he said he did wish something mighta been done, though, and dove into the water.
