Ken Kesey Quotes
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I loved the world of imagination.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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If I'm in work mode and going to meetings, I'll make an effort and dress up, but when I'm at home or just chilling, I'm in beanies and jeans and sneakers.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.
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Winning 'American Idol' gives the opportunity to really help make a change to a lot of lives, and making a difference has given me the greatest satisfaction and joy.
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Actually, when I was in elementary school, I saw a saxophone. A band came to my school, and I saw this guy get up and play this solo. And I said, 'Oh man, what is that! That must be fantastic!'
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During his runs for the GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has done a good job of mimicking Reagan's anti-government diatribes and 'better days ahead' rhetoric.
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If you watch a television show made by accomplished professionals of children's TV, it's all very expressive.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.
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It's always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can't change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before.
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For myself, I think that those who cultivate wisdom and believe themselves able to instruct their fellow-citizens as to their interests are least likely to become partisans of violence. They are too well aware that to violence attach enmities and dangers, whereas results as good may be obtained by persuasion safely and amicably.
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I enjoyed being anonymous.
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In real football, I wouldn't want Terrell Owens anywhere near my team. But you're nuts if you don't take him in fantasy.
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Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.
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In investing, we intuitively think we should make a number of small bets. A blockbuster strategy is the opposite. It means making fewer huge investments. But it turns out to be safer.
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It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well provided are continually met and frustrated by difficult times and situations. It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants; but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way.
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The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
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I'll tell you what the public likes more than anything, it's the most rare commodity in the world - honesty.
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He who marches out of line hears another drum.
