Walker Percy Quotes
As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair.
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My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'
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I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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My father was an electrical contractor, while I used to deliver video cassettes on a cycle to people in Juhu and Bandra, including celebrities like Mithun Chakraborty. Mithunda remembers me and is very proud of me. He can't believe that the guy who used to come to his house in short pants has become so successful.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.
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Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.
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I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.
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Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.
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The qualities that make parties such a nightmare for people - and also so pleasurable - make them incredibly important inside of fiction. There's a chaos agent quality to them: You just don't know who's going to be there or why. You could run into an old enemy, an old friend, an old friend who's become an enemy.
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I love any TV show that has to do with singing.
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Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
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There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.
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As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair.
