Philip K. Dick Quotes
Fiction Appeals to the base lusts that hide in everyone no matter how respectable on the surface.
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Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
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Microsoft's Windows 3.1, released in 1992, was the first truly successful edition of Windows and juiced the Redmond juggernaut. Apple's Macintosh System 7.5, released in 1994, was another in a string of versions that lacked key architectural features that the Mac didn't have until Steve Jobs returned and brought with him the code that became OS X.
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One of the defining dynamics of 2008 has been the emerging wave of new, young voters getting involved and storming the gates of the traditional political establishment.
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I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.
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Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?
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When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.
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Working hard is way more fun. If you had to goof off 40 hours a week, you couldn't do it. It would drive you crazy.
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A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.
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I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.
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I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.
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I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring.
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Disneyland is a show.
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If I'm not going to get a part, tell me why.
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I remember, as a kid, going into other people's houses. Everything was different. The smells in the kitchen were different; the clothing was different. That bothered me. There's something very mysterious about other families and the way they function.
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When I had my first camera - I was a child of the '80s. I remember what it was like reusing the same tapes over and over again, and having really bad quality and images kind of bubbling up from under the surface.
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I had the good fortune to spend hours with my parents around the dinner table having debates on politics and economics.
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I started out as a receptionist. I typed, I filed, I answered the phones for a little nine-person company.
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I've never said, 'I live for art.'
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No society will long survive without mothers who care for their young and provide that nurturing care so essential for their normal development.
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It is not your strength and your natural power that subjects all these people to you. Do not pretend then to rule them by force or to treat them with harshness. Satisfy their reasonable desires; alleviate their necessities; let your pleasure consist in being beneficent; advance them as much as you can, and you will act like the true king of desire.
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It's all about being a part of something in the community, socializing with people who share interests and coming together to help improve the world we live in.
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I've been in the entertainment industry since I was six-years-old ... As Charles Dickens says, 'It's been the best of times, the worst of times.' But I would not change my career ... While some have made deliberate attempts to hurt me, I take it in stride because I have a loving family, a strong faith and wonderful friends and fans who have, and continue, to support me.
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Fiction Appeals to the base lusts that hide in everyone no matter how respectable on the surface.
