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 am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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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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Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
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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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In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision.
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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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I know this will blow your mind, but most people would probably never ever get it, but I listen to classical music when nobody else is around. It calms me down and I can get into this, like, deep thinking mode, you know, because there's really no lyrics to it, so you're not following something that - that you're listening to a story.
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To be in the right is often an expensive business.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.
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Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who prove themselves of so much hardier stuff than the rest that no power on earth is able to destroy them. The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
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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?
