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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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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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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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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When you win, you want more of it. You can't win enough.
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I went to Paris for a year in 1986 to study theatre; there was a lot of clowning around, buffoonery and fencing. It was then that my own style kind of blossomed.
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The Forest of Arden, where I grew up, is where 'As You Like It' is set. It was idyllic.
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I actually used to make these little plays. I would stand there, and I would act out where I was dying or something. I would make them sit there and watch all my plays. I would be talking in gibberish language, like I was talking in a different language, and my parents would be like, 'Oh that was great!' and I'd be like, 'Wait, it's not done!'
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It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages.
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All the wild-witches, those most notable ladies For all their broom-sticks and their tears, Their angry tears, are gone.
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My OkCupid co-founders are my best friends. We were in each other's weddings.
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I always get nervous when I watch what I'm in. Very self-critical.
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I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous.
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Fish cannot carry guns.
