Walker Percy Quotes
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I was authorized to do everything that I did.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
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To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first - for example, psychotherapy.
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Every person wants to stretch himself and widen his audience. Since Hollywood has got more exposure and is shown all over the world, it's obvious that every actor would want to do an English film and explore himself.
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I don't like memoirs. I think they're self-serving, and people use them to settle scores, and I really tried not to do that. You have to have a really interesting life to justify memoir, and my life has been pretty ho-hum.
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Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.
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I don't care about making a fool of myself on stage anymore. I don't care what people think.
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Peace between Israel and Palestine would be a giant step toward greater regional stability, and it would finally let both Israelis and Palestinians benefit from the Middle East's growing wealth.
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The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.
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Lance Armstrong: How bad do you want to win a stage in the Tour de France?
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As I've gone through life, I've found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is a reflection of what you loved most when you were somewhere between nine and eleven years old.
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Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.
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When I am designing, I make a selection of music that will be the inspiration behind the whole collection... I will be blasting that music-it becomes a journey I take in my brain to transfer that sound to the clothing.
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You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will.
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I know my game. I know what I need to get better at and be better at.
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The best things in life cannot be willed into being.
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...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair.
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It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
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I'm driving down the freeway the other day, on my way to Knott's Scary Farm probably, and I hear this report on NPR that the whole lemmings thing was faked in the 1950s. They were shooting a wildlife documentary in the '50s, they found a group of lemmings, and the crew chased them all off a cliff. No lemming has ever jumped off a cliff, purposefully, ever. Isn't that unbelievable?
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I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?
