Philip K. Dick Quotes
This is an artifact and that was a relic. This is alive in the now, whereas that merely remained.
Quotes to Explore
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
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I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
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I'm like a mechanic. If you break down and phone the AA, they'll come to you whether it's raining or snowing. That's what an actor should do.
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.
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Religion is something we don't talk about, and it is used by uneducated people as a weapon to divide us as opposed to connect with each other.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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At age 14, coming to the U.S., all I knew was American Ballet Theatre, Baryshnikov, Nureyev, and some of the European companies. I barely knew anything about Balanchine.
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I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.
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This is a serious warning cry: Surrender without reservation to the Lord who has called us. This is required of us so that the face of the earth may be renewed.
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I've punched a fan in the face because he was obnoxious. I've also pinched a child and made him cry, but I was 10 then!
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It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered.
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If the light is right, you can squint at the Taj and see the specter of its black twin on the other side of the Yamuna - and it is then that you truly marvel not just at the Taj, but at the wonder of what might have been.
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If I've tried to bring anything to federal politics, it's the idea that hope and optimism should be at their heart; we can look after each other better than we do today.
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In almost every single way, George and I share the same values. And if we differ on some issues, it's very, very minor.
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Charity is really self-interest masquerading under the form of altruism.
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I am convinced that nobody should be afraid of peace.
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...the best figurative poetry speaks not to the frivolous intellect, but (if anything does) straight to the heart; and does it better than plain prose. There seems then to be something which is better said with metaphor than without, which goes straighter to its mark by going crooked, and hits its aim exactly by flying off at tangents.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE; it is a noble or royal hunt, in which what is sport to the few is death to the many, and in which the spectators halloo and encourage the strong to set upon the weak, and cry havoc in the chase, though they do not share in the spoil.
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Perseverance is the key to starting a successful business.
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This is an artifact and that was a relic. This is alive in the now, whereas that merely remained.
