Walker Percy Quotes
Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone’s finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair?
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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I tell young actors to do anything that will sustain them.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.
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It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.
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What is a farm but a mute gospel?
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I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.
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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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The inventory goes down the elevator every night.
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We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
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Philadelphia loves its team, and being able to win a World Series for the city, fans, players and our Phillies organization meant so much to me.
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Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.
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I'm overjoyed and honored to become a member of the Hollywood Records family. I've admired the careers they've made and can't wait to see how my musical path is paved out.
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I really did graduate at 14, and I go to college in the Los Angeles area near where I live.
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She speaketh as she would créepe into your bosome. And when the meale mouth hath woon the bottome of your stomake, than will the pickthanke it tell To your most enmies, you to bye and fell. To tell tales out of schoole, that is hir great lust. Looke what she knowth, blab it wist, out it must.
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One hundred eighty years later, we know that the eyes of the world are fixed upon us. And we must ask ourselves: what kind of an example of freedom do we give to our age? What are the true marks of our America-and what do they mean to the world?
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Going from crying to laughing that fast and hard happens maybe five times in your life and that extreme right turn is the reason why we are alive, and I believe it extends our life by many years.
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Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone’s finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair?
