Ken Kesey Quotes
I thought for a minute there I saw her whipped. Maybe I did. But I see now that it don't make any difference.... To beat her you don't have to whip her two out of three or three out of five, but every time you meet. As soon as you let down your guard, as soon as you lose once, she's won for good. And eventually we all got to lose. Nobody can help that.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
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There's so much made of the exceptional and the celebrity, the famous, and the wannabees.
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I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.
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My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me.
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I like visceral writing that people can't help but respond to, even if they respond, and they're shocked, or they're angry, or they're offended. I think that's the only way to reach people.
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Even the cleanest air, at the centre of the South Pacific or somewhere over Antarctica, has two hundred thousand assorted bits and pieces in every lungful. And this count rises to two million or more in the thick of the Serengeti migration, or over a six-lane highway during rush hour in downtown Los Angeles.
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I thought for a minute there I saw her whipped. Maybe I did. But I see now that it don't make any difference.... To beat her you don't have to whip her two out of three or three out of five, but every time you meet. As soon as you let down your guard, as soon as you lose once, she's won for good. And eventually we all got to lose. Nobody can help that.
