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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Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
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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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Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
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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 love being on tour; I love being on the road. It's the most amazing feeling ever. I live for it; I love it.
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A lot of our fans, they always say Salt-N-Pepa and Spinderella was the soundtrack to their lives.
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I don't have anything to say about the guy [Muddy Waters], you know. Treat me all right. But I can this: they are jealous hearted, you know. Are jealous hearted musicians, you know. See, if you can't do like your songs, get kinda jealous of you. Like you, like they think you better than them and all that, but I don't fool with those kind of peoples, you know. I ain't got the time.
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I think it's not just about how you perform on the field, but how you hold yourself off it.
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New York has a great energy, but London is better.
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Fiction Appeals to the base lusts that hide in everyone no matter how respectable on the surface.
