Ken Kesey Quotes

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we’re in the present, but we aren’t. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

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• Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Think
  • Trust
  • Brain

• You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Support
  • Always
  • Might

• If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Question
  • Look
  • Make A Difference

• I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Know
  • Environment

• The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Facts
  • Argument

• Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

  

  Vera Rubin
  • Science
  • Best
  • Force

• In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Far
  • Void
  • Fill

• Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • You
  • Gold
  • Decisions

• From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Night
  • Day
  • Sea

• I tell young actors to do anything that will sustain them.

  

  Vic Tayback
  • Young
  • Will
  • Anything

• If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • You
  • Woman
  • Looking

• I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Sunday
  • Superstitions
  • Socks

• Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Being
  • Interdependence

• When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Hand
  • Opinion
  • Fence

• Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Die
  • Sense

• The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Knowledge
  • Thing
  • Teaching

• Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • People
  • Just
  • Everyone

• I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Work
  • Day
  • Artist

• Imagine stepping into the shoes of Roberto Duran, one of the most legendary boxers in the history of the sport, and definitely the most legendary Latin American boxer, and then having 'Raging Bull' in my corner. I mean, imagine that? Just having Robert De Niro to play the trainer in the movie, that was fantastic.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • American
  • History
  • Movie

• Drone attacks subvert the rule of law - we become judge, jury, and executioner - at the push of a button.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Law
  • Judge

• We'll need to revise the tired assumption that people automatically become more conservative as they grow older.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • People
  • Tired
  • Assumption

• In this movie, you have all the things you love from Tim. All the magic and the whimsy and the surreal, but he also has a fantastic story of a father and son that really gets under your skin.

  

  Danny DeVito
  • Movie
  • Father
  • Son

• We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we’re in the present, but we aren’t. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

  

  Ken Kesey
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  • Present