Walker Percy Quotes
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Obviously, I am a huge Matt Morrison fan, and I am a big Lea Michele fan because I know those guys from way back.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.
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I believe, whatever God does, he does it for the good. I always try to look at life like that.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
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'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
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I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.
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I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'
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A lot of the science fiction that I grew up reading was written when we still thought that Venus might be an oceanic planet.
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It is a cultural tradition that makes New Orleans what it is. It also represents the roots of American music and an important part of the African-American community in New Orleans. It unites people in some of the poorer neighborhoods of the city. It is absolutely critical to continue.
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When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.
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I have made mistakes in the past, but when I have, I have always said so.
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I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
