Walker Percy Quotes
But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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I think we know how to do Mars.
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The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual', but bi-curious? Yea.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
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To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it's good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
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The men have piled up in my past, have fallen trenchantly through my life, like an avalanche that doesn't mean to kill but is going to bury me alive just the same.
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But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.
