Walker Percy Quotes
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I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.
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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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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.
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So long as we think of it objectively, time is Fate or Chance, the factor in our lives for which we are not responsible, and about which we can do nothing; but when we begin to think of it subjectively, we feel responsible for our time, and the notion of punctuality arises.
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I guess I do carry a bit of male energy. It's like what I always say - two yangs don't make a right.
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Experience through freedom is the only means to arrive at the truth and the best solutions; and there is no freedom if there is not the freedom to be wrong.
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It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity.
