Walker Percy Quotes
Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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My first album was completed in three months.
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If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
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I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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I always thought golf was a game reserved for the rich and the elite... But it's a misconception. It's a highly technical game, and it's a game that you can play and master alone. You require sharp skills for it, and you can play the game alone.
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My career is an open book, but my life is not.
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The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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But if a mirror ever makes
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My own career was undoubtedly determined, not by my own will but by various factors over which I have no control-primarily those mysterious glands in which Nature prepares the very essence of life, our internal secretions.
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I think that when a film does its job, it poses questions rather than gives answers. It should act as a frustrating counselor who, at your bidding for advice, says, 'What do you think?' I think that's some of what the culture critic Greg Tate meant by art leaving a 'metaphysical stain.'
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In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system.
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I have a very quiet life. There's nothing weird.
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Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?
