Kool Aid Quotes

• I'm not Jesus Christ but I can turn water into Kool-Aid.

  George Watsky

  Jesus, Water, Christ

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• I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

  Ken Kesey

  Motivational, Lightning, Literature

  "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolfe, (Ch. I : Black Shiny FBI Shoes), 1968.

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• Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus...or off the bus.

  Tom Wolfe

  Mind, Groups, Becoming

  Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, p.97, Macmillan

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• It’s got to be some kind of cult. Anyone offers you Kool-Aid or a hot shower, say no.

  Marisha Pessl

  Hot, Kind, Aids

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• He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.

  Richard Brautigan

  Reality, Able, Aids

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Vintage, Doubt

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.264, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It's important to have your own space. I've never trusted people who do everything together. I call them "Kool-Aid Couples," because it's like they drank the same Kool-Aid and it's drugged them into constantly gazing into each other's eyes.

  Denis Leary

  Couple, Eye, Space

  "No Rest For The Leary". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. May 23, 2006.

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• We think we’re in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

  Ken Kesey

  Past, Thinking, Knows

  "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolfe, (Ch. 11: The Unspoken Thing), 1968.

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• People make the mistake of drinking the Kool-Aid, believing your own hype, letting people tell you you're this or you're that or you're too this.

  Kat Dennings

  Mistake, Drinking, Believe

  "Kat Dennings: 'I'm not concerned with fame'" by Justin Harp, www.digitalspy.com. March 24, 2011.

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• When I was growing up in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, I sold doughnuts, popcorn and Kool Aid every day after school so that my family had some money and I could pay my school fees. It was a tough life.

  George Weah

  Growing Up, School, Popcorn

  "Africa's World Cup can make education a reality for all" by George Weah, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2010.

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• Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.

  Stephen King

  Girl, Sorry, Coffee

  Stephen King (1974). “Carrie”

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• [Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the brain then filters down to a trickle it can manage for the purpose of survival in a highly competitive world. Man has become so rational, so utilitarian, that the trickle becomes most pale and thin. It is efficient, for mere survival, but it screens out the most wondrous part of man's potential experience without his even knowing it. We're shut off from our own world.

  Tom Wolfe

  Men, Knowing, Perception

  Tom Wolfe (1999). “The electric kool-aid acid test”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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• You're either on the bus or off the bus.

  Tom Wolfe

  Hippie, Across The Universe, Pranksters

  Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, p.97, Macmillan

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• Do you know what it's like to run spellcheck for six hours? It's like a party in purgatory. A party in purgatory where all they have to drink is sugar-free Kool-aid, and the only game to play is Monopoly, and none of your friends show up.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Running, Party, Games

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• I drank the Kool-Aid of being a network star. Once it didn't happen, I realized it wasn't the best version of my comedy.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Stars, Comedy, Aids

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• I don't want to say I drank the Kool-Aid because I'm definitely not religious and I don't buy into any religion at all. I'm anti, because I don't like anyone being discriminated against. But, I do think that I very much needed a sunny place for me to feel happier, and living in LA was almost like that sort of cleansing experience like I was being baptized in a river.

  Ladyhawke

  Religious, Thinking, Baptized In

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

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• True sorrow is as rare as true love.

  Stephen King

  Im Sorry, Sorrow, I Am Sorry

  Stephen King (1974). “Carrie: A Novel of a Girl with a Frightening Power”, Scarborough, Ont. : New American Library of Canada

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• Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be anything to apologize about.

  Tom Wolfe

  Apologizing

  Tom Wolfe (1982). “The Purple Decades: A Reader”, p.229, Macmillan

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• I think cults are probably a little less scary. To me, it's scarier that 25 people would wear robes and jump up and down and try to convert everyone to happiness than a Kool-Aid suicide.

  Annie E. Clark

  Suicide, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• McCain is the most unifying figure in the Senate. Barack Obama is so far left. Turning to her co-host, Joy Behar, an Obama supporter, she said: Do you want some more Barack Obama Kool-Aid, or what?

  Elisabeth Hasselbeck

  Obama Supporters, Joy, Want

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• Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.

  John Ridley

  Believe, Hollywood, Morality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.

  Stephen King

  Im Sorry, Sorrow, I Am Sorry

  Stephen King (1974). “Carrie”

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• Dakota's head was stuck in his toga. He staggered around olike a Kool-Aid-stained ghost. "Um," Percy said, "should I wear my bed sheets?

  Rick Riordan

  Bed, Togas, Ghost

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• I had drunk our great cultural Kool-Aid about regret, which is that lamenting things that occurred in the past is an absolute waste of time, that we should always look forward and not backward, and that one of the noblest and best things we can do is strive to live a life free of regrets.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Motivation, Regret, Inspiration

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• Cole - I just thought of a new game. Jaz - What's that? Cole - Splat the Specter. Jaz - Rules? Cole - You can help me make them up. Right now all I know for sure is that it involves water guns filled with grape Kool-Aid and two ferrets named Biff and Chlamydia. Vayl - Why Ferrets? Jaz - Really? You want to know about his choice of pets when he's named one of them after an STD?

  Jennifer Rardin

  Gun, Games, Two

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