Ken Kesey Quotes
I have known a lot of people to go down and out - they kill themselves with alcohol or downers. But I've never known anybody to go up and out.
Quotes to Explore
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Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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Let us have peace.
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It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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When I got into the Beatles, I must have only been about six or seven but old enough to take notice. We used to have an old radiogram which, for readers of a certain age, was like a big cabinet thing with a record player inside it.
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The boy planted his hands on his hips and a broad smile lit his face. "My name's Peter. Can I play too?
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We all run the risk of thinking that people have common sense sometimes.
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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
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I once terminated a partnership with a chap who proved--unreliable. As a matter of fact, I terminated him.
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I have known a lot of people to go down and out - they kill themselves with alcohol or downers. But I've never known anybody to go up and out.
