Philip K. Dick Quotes
An Irishman hears that the banks are failing. He runs into the bank where he keeps his money and demands every cent of it. 'Yes sir,' the teller says politely. 'Do you want it in cash or in the form of a check?' The Irishman replies: 'Well, if you have it, I don't want it. But if you haven't got it, I must have it immediately.'Philip K. Dick
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
G. Willow Wilson -
I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
Dan Harmon -
No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
Naomi Scott -
The cast of 'Lemonade Mouth' was picked so perfectly. A lot of people see us as a band on camera, but not a lot of people know that Lemonade Mouth was a band off-camera, too.
Adam Hicks -
I think America has a brilliant future.
Harold Evans -
I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.
Yao Ming
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I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
Zara Larsson -
Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
Maggie Smith -
Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
Dani Shapiro -
Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
Damon Galgut -
Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
Yakov Smirnoff -
Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
Rachel Hunter
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I've been cutting my hair ever since college. I try to do that whenever it gets rough. I'm not too cheap to go the barber shop, but I mostly try to do that by myself. I try to keep my skills sharp.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson -
I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
Lajos Kossuth -
I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
Adam Pascal -
I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
Washed Out -
There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.
Zhang Ziyi -
If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
M. J. Rose
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Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein -
We get stressed out now by having somebody yell at us in the office or by making a mistake or by losing a bunch of money. These aren't problems that our hunter-gatherer ancestors had. They'd get stressed if a lion came to them or a boulder was rolling towards their living quarters. That kind of stress provoked the fight or flight response.
Daniel Levitin -
I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote 'In Contempt' was because of the money. After the trial I came to realize that there were things that I needed to do if I was to protect myself and my family, so there were some selfish reasons for it.
Christopher Darden -
Comparing Madonna with Marilyn Monroe is like comparing Raquel Welch with the back of a bus.
Boy George Culture Club -
With him Kosovo has lost a historic leader who devoted his life to protecting and promoting the rights of the people of Kosovo.
Javier Solana -
An Irishman hears that the banks are failing. He runs into the bank where he keeps his money and demands every cent of it. 'Yes sir,' the teller says politely. 'Do you want it in cash or in the form of a check?' The Irishman replies: 'Well, if you have it, I don't want it. But if you haven't got it, I must have it immediately.'
Philip K. Dick