Philip K. Dick Quotes
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The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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Hard work is not why I have been successful as a model.
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Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.
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We have just been working hard to have people to come out to vote and to make sure people understand how important the election is.
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No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
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Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
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The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.
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I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
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A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.
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I think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll.
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My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up.
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I'll often get obsessed with something for about three days, and I'll be utterly into it, and I'll read every single thing about it possible. And then three days later, I'll just forget about it, and I'll be onto something else.
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Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.
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Cities can be the engine of social equity and economic opportunity. They can help us reduce our carbon footprint and protect the global environment. That is why it is so important that we work together to build the capacity of mayors and all those concerned in planning and running sustainable cities.
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Among the world's 500 largest companies, not one has completely relied on its own growth to develop.
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The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
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I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.
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I've had a couple of long relationships. And I've had a couple of shorter relationships.
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Fashion has a huge responsibility - in what we show on the runway, what we do in editorial, who we dress - to make sure it represents differences. If we don't, we're giving in to the discrimination.
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
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From now on, I don't care if my tea leaves spell 'Die, Ron, Die,' I'm chucking them in the bin where they belong.
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Sin penetrates to the heart, darkens and hardens it until it extinguishes the light of belief. Each sin has a path that leads to unbelief. Unless that sin is swiftly obliterated by seeking God's forgiveness, it grows from a worm into a snake that gnaws at the heart.
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I had lunch the other day with my niece, Emma, and she said, 'You're so smart, Aunt Julia.' And I wanted to say, 'I'm not smart - I'm 41! You're 17!'
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Fish cannot carry guns.
