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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All men - even, I have written, Jesus Christ - began as flecks of tissue inside a woman's womb. Every boy must stagger out of the shadow of a mother goddess, whom he never fully escapes.
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Keeping secrets was the beginning of freedom.
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My brain kind of rolls pretty fast when I'm conscious. It's constantly looking for stuff to do. Like if I'm in my house and I'm hanging out, I tend to be listening to music whilst watching a film whilst sending e-mails.
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I try not to get too ahead of myself. I try to be happy where I am.
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I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.
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People notice peacemakers because they dress funny. We know how the people who make war dress - in uniforms and medals, or in computers and clipboards, or in absoluteness, severity, greed, and cynicism. But the peacemaker is dressed in righteousness, justice, and faithfulness - dressed for the work that is to be done.
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The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.
