Philip K. Dick Quotes
My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?' Many of my stories and novels deal with psychotic states or drug-induced states by which I can present the concept of a multiverse rather than a universe. Music and sociology are themes in my novels, also radical political trends; in particular I've written about fascism and my fear of it.Philip K. Dick
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As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.
Francesca Annis -
America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
Carlisle Floyd -
I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
Patricia Marx -
Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
Samuel Beckett -
One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
Karen Mills -
I really don't believe in magic.
Joanne Rowling
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You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.
Yahya Jammeh -
The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
Oskar Schindler -
When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
Jack Henry Abbott -
Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
Cameron van der Burgh -
Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
Focus on remedies, not faults.
Jack Nicklaus
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
Karen Salmansohn -
Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
Barbara Smith -
One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
Ferdinand Mount -
I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.
Gary Bettman -
I was not really as good as I should have been.
Eddie Albert -
My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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Music needs room to breathe.
Ennio Morricone -
My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in an American accent? I guess it was because a lot of the music I was listening to had American vocalists.
Emma Watson -
No one pays me to be nice.
Aaron Allston -
'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.
Mary J. Blige -
While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.
Daisaku Ikeda -
My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?' Many of my stories and novels deal with psychotic states or drug-induced states by which I can present the concept of a multiverse rather than a universe. Music and sociology are themes in my novels, also radical political trends; in particular I've written about fascism and my fear of it.
Philip K. Dick