Ken Kesey Quotes
I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.Ken Kesey
Quotes to Explore
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My last series was on A.B.C., a one-hour called 'My Generation'. Critics liked it. I was on for two weeks, and that was a tough one.
Warren Littlefield -
A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
Eddie Cantor -
In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.
Valerie Simpson -
I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.
Zoe McLellan -
In the modern era, our nation experienced constant hardship and difficulties. The Chinese nation reached the most dangerous period. Since then, countless people with lofty ideals to realise the great revival of the Chinese nation rose to resist and fight, but failed one time after another.
Xi Jinping -
I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
Laetitia Casta
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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
Doing comedy is one of the best gifts in life.
Mallory Jansen -
In becoming a citizen, one undertakes certain duties and responsibilities. One of the more intangible of those duties and responsibilities is no matter what one's birth and background, to accept the historical past of the new country as one's own.
J. M. Coetzee -
No man fails who does his best.
Orison Swett Marden -
You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke.
Ed Harris -
Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.
Wale
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The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free.
Gabrielle Roy -
I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government.
Irv Kupcinet -
'Mr Selfridge' is a lot more accessible than shows like 'Downton.' Everyone knows the store, but not everyone knows the story. Having this store as the backdrop with all of society working under one roof, I think it really captures people's imaginations.
Zoe Tapper -
I put my foot in my mouth sometimes. I'll be the first to admit it.
Wale -
We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
Yves Saint Laurent -
I think there's an abundance of talent in America and there will never be not a lot of talent out there.
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
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We hardly need to be reminded that we are living in an age of confusion - a lot of us have traded in our beliefs for bitterness and cynicism or for a heavy package of despair, or even a quivering portion of hysteria. Opinions can be picked up cheap in the market place while such commodities as courage and fortitude and faith are in alarmingly short supply.
Edward R. Murrow -
We play a beat for 15, 20 seconds and know if we want to get on it. When we record a verse, it's no more than 15, 20 minutes. We don't have a pen and paper. We bounce off each other.
Takeoff -
If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
Laura Dern -
A surprising number of teens I meet in rougher schools around the country find refuge in novels and creative writing. It's not always the usual suspects either, the high achievers.
Matt de la Pena -
The president of the United States, Barack Obama, deserves the benefit of the doubt and our support in his decision to use military force in Libya.
Ed Schultz -
I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.
Ken Kesey