William Alexander Percy Quotes
And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France?
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With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks.
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I love 'Annie Hall'; I will always come back to that film again and again. Diane Keaton has been such an inspiration to me. She always brings humour, but complexity, and I love watching her on screen. She's got real charisma.
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Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!
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Iran doesn't need one centrifuge. Canada has nuclear energy. Spain has nuclear energy. Switzerland has nuclear energy, and they don't enrich uranium. You don't need to enrich uranium in order to use nuclear energy. You enrich uranium in order to produce a bomb.
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I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
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I discovered that wearing the veil is not suitable for a woman who wants to work in activism and the public domain. People need to see you, to associate and relate to you. It is not stated in my religion to wear the veil; it is a traditional practice, so I took it off.
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There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.
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So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.
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I became famous almost before I had a craft.
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Children believe that if they just want something badly enough, it will happen.
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I know I should feel anger at my father for certain things. But since he died when I was 11, I never got to that point.
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The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
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Babbo's menu is only four pages, but it's overwhelming - there are 20 different pastas in there, a lot of stuff. There is nothing I hate more than a useless, lazy menu with only three appetizers and four entrees.
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Don't try to be what you're not. If you're nervous, be nervous. If you're shy, be shy. It's cute.
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South Sudanese people are rich like the soil; they just need a little water, and they will grow.
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We know how difficult it is to do something that works and that you feel proud of. When it happens, it's like a miracle.
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There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the White Sox in Boston in 1919, and he hit a home run off Lefty Williams over the left-field fence in the ninth inning and won the game. It was majestic. It soared.
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I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!
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And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France?
