Walker Percy Quotes
Christ should leave us. He is too much with us and I don't like his friends. We have no hope of recovering Christ until Christ leaves us. There is after all something worse than being God-forsaken. It is when God overstays his welcome and take up with the wrong people.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
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In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
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Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.
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When I step on the stage and sing 'Wait for It,' I'm singing that for everybody. I don't mean I'm singing it for them; I mean, you are their voice.
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The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.
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I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents tell you.
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I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music.
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Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more.
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Christ should leave us. He is too much with us and I don't like his friends. We have no hope of recovering Christ until Christ leaves us. There is after all something worse than being God-forsaken. It is when God overstays his welcome and take up with the wrong people.
