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.'
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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.
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I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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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.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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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.
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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.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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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?'
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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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.
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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.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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And taking more money out of the private economy and having the government perform as it has poorly done with the stimulus I don't think is the right way to go.
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There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.
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People book me because of the songs I write, not because of the sets that I play, per se... I'm sure I'm going to be moving to a laptop really soon, but I was one of the last guys to let the vinyl go. I was crying. In my room, I still have thousands of records. I still pull them out and play them all the time.
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Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe.
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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.'
