Ken Kesey Quotes
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.
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If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
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When you face unexpected events, you have to try to overcome those problems, but at the same time, you have to continue working according to the plan that you defined since the beginning. So that's what we have tried to do - not to avoid the urgent responses but to continue the route that we had defined.
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You never grow out of high school sadly.
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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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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
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I discovered I was a monotheist... That rules out polytheism. I have also had a problem with authority, which rules out any religion with a priesthood or leader who claims to be God's representative on Earth.
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A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
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I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.
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When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.
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'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.
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I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.
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But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.
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I have an American top hat that's collapsible and works as a frisbee.
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I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body.
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If the Palestinian Olympic Committee or Palestinian Federation provide good facilities to the athletes then maybe I can become better than these Bahraini or Qatari athletes.
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All time is wasted that is not spent in seeking God
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I went into Guitar Center, and David Koresh and Steven Schneider were looking at a drum set, and they asked me to play it. They handed me their card, which said, 'Messiah Productions.' All this religious scripture was written on the back. The last thing I wanted was to join any kind of Christian band.
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When I walked into the Christian section of a bookstore, the message was clear: Faith is something you do alone. Rick does not have much tolerance for people living alone. He's like Bill Clinton in that he feels everyone's pain. If Rick thinks somebody is lonely, he can't sleep at night. He wants us all to live with each other and play nice so he can get some rest. Tortured soul.
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I think that Malcolm X was the most remarkable historical figure produced by Black America in the 20th century.
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I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.
