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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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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But the true evil of drink lies in the disillusion: that the initial pleasure very soon evaporates, leaving a demoralizing craving for more, which is not even temporarily pleasurable. Which then leads to deterioration of the faculties of both body and mind; plus a bewildering lack of co-operation between the two.
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I like to go and do something adventurous. I like to go out and do some sort of crazy activity.
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My dad used to put me in front of the TV screen and made me watch old Jimmy Durante and Dean Martin movies. I just always loved entertainment.
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There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers.
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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
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Fiction Appeals to the base lusts that hide in everyone no matter how respectable on the surface.
