Walker Percy Quotes
The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to the financial system, so science must break the tyranny of the luxury journals. The result will be better research that better serves science and society.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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You can't be in love with a Google search.
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I want to develop Katihar as an ideal district. That is my dream for my constituency.
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.
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I studied at Howard. I studied at Oxford.
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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.
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I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.
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We may suppose that everyone has in himself the whole form of a moral conception.
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The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives.
