Walker Percy Quotes
Free people have a serious problem with place, being in a place, using up a place, deciding which new place to rotate to. Americans ricochet around the United States like billiard balls.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
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I was a fashion editor for years in London before I came to 'Vogue,' and I spent my life arranging the folds of a ball gown skirt for a picture and pinning fabric and using all those stylist tricks. And you don't have to do that now because they can do it in Photoshop.
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Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.
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I generally play villains once every three or four years by choice because I get offered villainous roles a lot, because of the way I look and whatever. And I tend to avoid them because I think you can end up in a cul-de-sac of your own making if you're cast in that.
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I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.
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You made new rules for the people you loved. They weren't subject to the same judgment criteria you reserved for the rest of the world. In some ways you were way easier on them, and in others, much harder.
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Free people have a serious problem with place, being in a place, using up a place, deciding which new place to rotate to. Americans ricochet around the United States like billiard balls.
