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 didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.
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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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It's more like giving people a taste of what the tour will be like. It's getting people to hear the music to a different sound … We remixed some of the songs so they sound totally different. It's really energetic.
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There is so much about modeling that I don't like! What I hate? It makes you so image conscious all the time. I like to be healthy and stay fit. I am constantly thinking that I have to weigh this much, which is always on my mind, regarding working out and watching what I eat.
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You have to make an audience experience with the ears as well as their eyes.
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The first play I ever did was with Michael Langham, Brian Bedford, and Colm Feore, at Stratford Festival. That was my first professional job, and I got to work with Garland Wright and so many great artists.
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You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.
