Ken Kesey Quotes
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Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.
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People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.
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I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
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It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.
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China is still the fastest growing economy in the world, but we need to learn how to use money in a better way, and it's about quality, not quantity.
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Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.
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Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
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Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.
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How did I become a star? I don't know how it happened. When I look at my old pictures, I can't tell how it happened!
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If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.
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We grew up listening to alternative music from the '90s, and there was no shame in being on a major label and still making the music you wanted to make. I feel like rap rock came around and drew a line in the sand, and everybody that was like me ran away from that and started making indie-rock.
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I usually start my day with a light breakfast of fruit and eggs and take granola bars with me to eat after practice. Lunch and dinner usually consist of chicken over pasta or rice and beans.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living long enough to see that disease expressed.
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One year, I was a patron of a new opera. It was, to put it kindly, unpleasant to the ear. The friends I went with hated it. Keeping quiet about my contribution, I was outed when one of them, reading the program at the restaurant during dinner, saw my name.
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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
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Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.
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Keeping secrets was the beginning of freedom.
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The nature of men’s responsibilities distanced men from feelings, whereas the nature of women’s responsibilities encouraged the expression of feelings.
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I think it's very important to women what they want to watch. They're looking all the time to the red carpet to see what to wear, and it sets off all sorts of trends.
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There's a powerful sense of reality to our concepts, ... These are vehicles we think people would purchase and drive today.
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I don't feel like a celebrity. Poetry justifies celebrity. It's good to have respect for a poet.
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The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.
