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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Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
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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'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
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Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didn't want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, 'Walk this way.'
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Aspects of life here civility, courtesy, coziness have always bound Britons to their country . . . They are part of the British myth, along with lovely countryside, dogs and horses, rose gardens, the Armada, the Battle of Britain.
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I never heard the music he was playing in my life, and I've never seen the dances he was doing in my life. It was definitely nothing of this decade. It was definitely nothing that anybody of this era would know about.
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Do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know the side you are used to is better than the one to come?
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I was glamorous because of magicians like George Folsey, James Wong Howe, Oliver Marsh, Ray June, and all those other great cinematographers. I trusted those men and the other experts who made us beautiful. The rest of it I didn't give a damn about. I didn't fuss about my clothes, my lighting, or anything else, but, believe me, some of them did.
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But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.
