Walker Percy Quotes
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.
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Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
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I want to write my own stuff, and, you know, it would be nice to put myself in it. But I would like to hope that there are going to be better roles offered as well and that I don't need to do everything. You know, like, I appreciate my career being somewhat DIY, but it would be nice to get some help.
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Working with so many people from all over the world is extremely enriching and stimulating.
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I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.
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I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.
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I have a massive Samoan family. And the Samoan culture has always played a massive part of my life. I've got hundreds of family on my dad's side that live in Samoa and in New Zealand. I've just been surrounded by the culture ever since I was a kid.
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It's much better to have your arguments dismissed because you might be joking than to have your arguments dismissed because you're not telling the truth.
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Life is fits and starts, mostly fits.
