Walker Percy Quotes
Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
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For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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I'm a big fan of Springsteen. Obviously, his social commentary is very powerful for me. I like his album 'The Rising.' It's not a new one, but it sticks in my mind because of what it says to me.
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Too many leaders act as if the sheep... their people... are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.
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If you broke down my technique, it wouldn't really take a rocket scientist to do so.
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I think you just have to appreciate who you are and hopefully they can see what a superhero is about.
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I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
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Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.
