Ken Kesey Quotes
It's still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.

Quotes to Explore
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I don't think I have a signature.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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I mean, I would have loved to have kept on being a big television star. If that's the way things would have broke, I would have loved to have done that. I just didn't really want to continue and be someone who took whatever was offered.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.
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People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.
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The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
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I love doing serious movies for adults.
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Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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Gardening is the greatest tonic and therapy a human being can have. Even if you have only a tiny piece of earth, you can create something beautiful, which we all have a great need for. If we begin by respecting plants, it's inevitable we'll respect people.
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Effects are perceived, whereas causes are conceived. Effects always preceed causes in the actual developmental order. (p. 303)
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The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
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But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.
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I want to do more urban R&B with a little bit of pop, but not much. I want to have that soulful kind of side of me come out.
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It's still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.