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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Coaching is about helping young people have a chance to succeed. There is no more awesome responsibility than that. One of the greatest honors a person can have is being called 'Coach.'
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I think of myself as more of a maker than a thinker.
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Do people really believe there's something different about the eyes of murderers?
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That's bizarre to see, L.A., downtown, and to feel like you're the only person there.
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I understand perfectly well why the Catholic Church preaches against abortion. But it shouldn't be the purpose of the Catholic Church to prevent non-Catholics from having abortions if they feel that abortions are morally acceptable. They can certainly only argue for what they believe to be right in the court of public opinion and try to persuade people.
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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.
