Philip K. Dick Quotes
When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific.
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Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?
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In committing an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces to join international Ebola relief efforts in West Africa, President Obama seems to be fulfilling the plans of highly influential progressive groups who seek to transform the American military into more of a social-work organization.
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I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
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My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it.
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The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.
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Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.
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I was into Spider Man when I was a kid and that was the only comic I've ever read.
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Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.
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President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.
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Whether it is salt farmers in India embracing solar power or wind companies creating tens of thousands of jobs in America, people are providing a vision for the clean energy future.
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In the first three years of Mint, from when it was founded to when it was sold, I can honestly say that in a sustainable way, I couldn't have worked any harder on it.
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We need to do everything possible to save the Jewish state. We don't have another Jewish state.
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The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
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We collectively have a special place in our heart for the manned space flight program - Apollo nostalgia is one element, but that is only part of it. American culture worships explorers - look at the fame of Lewis and Clark, for example. The American people want to think of themselves as supporting exploration.
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The protocol things, the officialdom, are part of my work. But it doesn't take more than 20 percent of my time. The majority of my time I spend on issues that I care about.
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That's one of the things I resent the most violently. To have to take your own life and give it away to the public, in pieces.
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When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.
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It is not a matter of competing with someone else. Essentially, it is accepting our own special abilities as special – and then developing them.
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When you’re first thinking through an idea, it’s important not to get bogged down in complexity. Thinking simply and clearly, is hard to do.
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A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room.
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The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.
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The Court explained the problem with his writings (People v. Ruggles. 1811.): an attack on Jesus Christ was an attack on Christianity; and an attack on Christianity was an attack on the foundation of the country; therefore, an attack on Jesus Christ was equivalent to an attack on the country!
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You can best fight any existing evil from the inside.
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When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific.
