Walker Percy Quotes
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No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
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I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
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I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
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If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
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The CW is a very fashion-oriented network and they like their stars to look a certain way. I like that, but at the same time, I need Nikita to be toned down a bit. You can't draw too much attention to Nikita because she's an assassin.
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I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
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I don't plot with huge detail, just big moments and important elements, and then I have a structure but can fly by the seat of my pants when I write.
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So we have broad bipartisan support for the bill, and it's my hope that we can build on some of the things that have been talked about in Washington involving building a larger ownership society.
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It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.
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If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.
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These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
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I don't get self-conscious. I'm not vain in that way.
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I have no problem with nudity. I can look at myself. I like walking around nude. It doesn't bother me. I see all the people walking around nude; it doesn't bother me.
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Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
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You have to pay attention, like with tours and expenses; you have to factor that all in. You want to play music for the rest of your life, you have to pay attention to all the things. You want to know what's always going on.
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I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now.
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If the whole U.S. was like Silicon Valley, we'd be in good shape. But now, the entire U.S. is not driven by technology, is not driven by innovation.
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Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
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I'm a huge Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu fan, so working with those two in any capacity would be a dream.
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[In Eritrea] in key positions - president, government, police - everybody's the same [color]. It's a country run by its people. No racial class, everybody feels a part of it.
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Beauty is a whore.
