Walker Percy Quotes
What a man can be the next minute bears no relation to what he is or what he was the minute before.
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We've all done actions in our lives where we compromise what we believe in. And if we keep doing it, there's no way back, no pride to hold on to.
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There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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As people want to move money around the world, they're going to be moving in and out of bitcoin quickly, but they're still going to own it for some period of time... and the size of that working capital requirement will grow as the global economy grows.
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I kind of woke up one morning and was like, 'Oh I see what's happening, I get everything'. I woke up and was like, 'I get it, I'm a product.'
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I think the rise of China is inevitable, because China has moved from a low-cost producer, at low levels of technology, to higher levels of technology, and because it's very competitive, even in some high-tech products they offer at very competitive rates - much lower than their competitors.
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People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time.
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Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door.
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It is good to connect to someone who reminds you that you have some real authenticity.
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Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
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I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
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My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of 'The Violation' by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The original was destroyed during the Blitz in 1940, and I commissioned an artist I know, Brigid Marlin, to make a copy from a photograph. I never stop looking at this painting and its mysterious and beautiful women.
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It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.
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He wrote stories about everything he saw, and he saw a lot. He walked through the streets of Brooklyn along the water, or leaned against the store windows on Livingston Street watching people hurrying along, making up stories about this one or that one.
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The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.
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And Mr. Burnaby said acutely: 'Well, it doesn't seem to have done her much good, poor lass.' But after a while they stopped talking about her and discussed instead who was going to win the Grand National. For, as Mr. Ferguson was saying at that minute in Luxor, it is not the past that matters but the future.
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At long last I am able to say a few words of my own... You must believe me when I tell you that I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.
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Go out to the last few grains of sand, the smartest of the smartest of the smartest, times a thousand. It makes sense that people would be a little odd out here. But you really have to wonder why we all end up in jail.
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Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up.
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Social Security is not broke, and Social Security does not need to be privatized.
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I collect antiques. Why? Because they're beautiful.
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This WorldHealthDay we celebrate and honour healthcare workers, who are our first line of defence against the #coronavirus. Your work has been relentless, courageous and critical in saving lives. We want you to feel safe and stay well. For that you need protection.
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I have to paint at least two times a week, and there's not enough time in the day to do everything.
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What a man can be the next minute bears no relation to what he is or what he was the minute before.
