Ken Kesey Quotes
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred writings.
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I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.
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I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.
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Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.
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I got my feet wet in a couple of shows. I did a cameo on my favorite show, 'The Vampire Diaries.' And I guest starred on a show called 'Kickin' It' on Disney.
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It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.
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I just want people to know they are the masters of their own fortune and misfortune. A lot of us think that doctors and drugs are going to control and help us, but the reality is we're our own best doctor.
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Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: 'Paint me just as I am.' Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it.
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Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.
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Whether I'm 40, 50 or 60, I'm going to be as physically strong as I am able.
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I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood".
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Lists are based on realism - on the coldly contemplated finitude of resources.
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You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.
