Walker Percy Quotes
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It's important not to think about Bitcoin as a replacement for cash or gold or something that works alongside that; it's to think of it as programmable money. And we just cannot even imagine what that will be used for.
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The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
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We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.
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I have worked really hard on my game, but I think my mother has been a real pillar of strength. She has prayed a lot, sacrificed a lot for me. You know, she hasn't seen me bat so far. When I am batting, she is praying... mothers are like that, aren't they?
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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You don't try to do more than you should.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
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When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.
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Golf is not easy.
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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.
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There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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It's terrifying, social media. It terrifies me.
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[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.
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I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value.
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I always feel that it's great when you can be happy when you're by yourself. That's not a bad thing.
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Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.
