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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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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College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.
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Spiritual truth should never be sold - those who sell it injure themselves spiritually.
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In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.
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The Republican Party I grew up in was a Republican Party of family unity.
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Everyone knows people like that: You're looking at their milky, glazed-over eyes, and you know they're not listening.
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We warriors of light must be prepared to have patience in difficult times and to know the Universe is conspiring in our favor, even though we may not understand how.
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But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.
