Philip K. Dick Quotes
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I write in a small office at home.
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To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.
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One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.
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PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.
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Basically, it's in your best mental interest to release your anger so you can see the world more clearly around you and seek better solutions for finding the happy, love-filled life you desire and deserve.
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I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
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Most of what happens in the world is far beyond a dog's comprehension, so they must turn to their faith in us to help them navigate life's treacheries. Don't we, also, have unanswerable questions about the vagaries of modern existence for which the answer is beyond human grasp, so that only our faith can guide us?
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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
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I feel like a survivor from an age that people no longer understand. I want to try to explain what the 1930s - the golden age of Hollywood - was truly like. People forget that America was such a different place then, not yet the dominant force in the world.
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I played football. I wrestled. Those were team sports and I played for the school. When I was younger, I played kick the can and stuff like that. I loved that.
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I've never personally been anorexic.
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Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
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Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.'
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The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.
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There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other.
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By experience; by a sense of human frailty; by a perception of 'the soul of goodness in things evil;' by a cheerful trust in human nature; by a strong sense of God's love; by long and disciplined realization of the atoning love of Christ; only thus can we get a free, manly, large, princely spirit of forgiveness.
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In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.
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The most recent scientific evidence is both overwhelming and shocking-what we feed (or don't feed) our children as they grow from birth to early adulthood has a greater total contributory effect on the dietary contribution to cancers than dietary intake over the next fifty years.
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I do not believe in the TRANSFER of an individual. I believe in the TRANSFER of entire villages.
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Comprehension follows perception.
