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.

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• I don't think I have a signature.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Think
  • Signature

• My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.

  

  G. Hannelius
  • Good
  • Great
  • She

• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Dark
  • Ocean
  • Without

• Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Fear
  • Kind
  • Born

• 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.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Done
  • Want
  • Star

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• 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.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Women
  • Slavery
  • Medical

• 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.'

  

  Gary Ross
  • Movie
  • Doing
  • Entertainment

• 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.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Love
  • Love Is
  • Apple

• 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.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Up
  • American
  • Control

• Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.

  

  Zell Miller
  • Words
  • Mean
  • Where

• 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.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Up
  • Look

• 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.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Future
  • Young
  • Influence

• 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.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• 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.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Political
  • Goal
  • Writer

• True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • True
  • Imagination
  • Intelligence

• I love doing serious movies for adults.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Serious
  • Doing
  • Movies

• Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Defense
  • Million
  • Homeland

• My mom and dad got divorced, so it was one of those things where Sundays I'd go to Dad's apartment, and this was, say, 1970-whatever, and it had a pool table on the top floor in a very traditional kind of divorced-dad apartment building.

  

  Chris Eigeman
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Pool

• In terms of scripted shows, I love 'Mad Men.' Cinematically, it's one of the most beautiful shows ever made. I love the subtlety of the acting and the storytelling, and I love that they don't think the audience is dumb. They make a great show, and you figure it out, and it leaves you with so many questions - it's just great.

  

  Jamie Chung
  • Great
  • Men
  • Beautiful

• Broadcast television is designed to reach as many people as possible, right? There's an obligation that we as creators have to advertisers, and it is an advertising medium.

  

  Jerrod Carmichael
  • People

• It blows my mind that you get Shakespeare where the 'low' comedy characters have got Northern or Welsh accents.

  

  John Tiffany
  • Mind
  • Comedy

• 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.

  

  Ken Kesey
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Truth