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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I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.
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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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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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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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I had phenomenal parents. They kept me very grounded, and I lived a normal life.
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Every relationship I've been in becomes long-distance because of work. It's never worked out. It puts an intense strain on the relationship, and at a certain point, it becomes too difficult.
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It's been phenomenal, but everybody keeps congratulating me on my resurgence and my big comeback. I haven't been away, guys. I've been working steadily for the last 63 years.
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Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us all, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy as something not to be trusted, something to be purged. But it's in there, deep inside, a spark waiting to set a touch-paper alight.
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I love prayer candles, and I use them often.
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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?
