Walker Percy Quotes
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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I'll never have a tattoo - I just don't like them, and when you're old they can look a disaster. As for piercings, I don't like them on men.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.
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We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.
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I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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I don't care who is attacking my son. I still support him; I still love him.
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The natural sweetness of leeks, with their soft, oniony aroma, makes them the perfect winter comfort food.
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I organize my denim, leather, and dresses by color, although my jeans are pretty much just black and gray.
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We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I knew that he wrote his own music, and he seemed nice, so I found out he was going to be in a practice room, practicing his trumpet. He'd already said he was too busy to hang out or hear any new people or work on any music, so I stalked him.
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I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
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The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
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It’s so difficult to describe [depression] to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it’s that cold absence of feeling — that really hollowed-out feeling.
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If the part isn't always there on the page, I've had good relationships with writers where there's an openness to bring more to the role.
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That's healthy and good for us that there are people who are prepared to question what we are doing.
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If you send out good people into the world, you know you've done something good.
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Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.
