Philip K. Dick Quotes
'How come you didn’t recognize me?' Hentman said crossly. 'Aren’t I world-famous? Or maybe you don’t watch TV.'
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of intensive erudition, and I realized that Canadians, located in the northernmost region of this hemisphere, were always respectful towards our country.
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I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew that this was what I wanted to do.
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I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.
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You can't always understand if someone's into you or not, so you should never really pursue something too far without gauging that first.
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I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.
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You never know what the future brings.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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It's bad enough being conned into singing an anti-war message by John Lennon when you think you're just wishing everyone a merry Christmas.
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Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.
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We can at least see that the question is asked, and asked on the basis of a clear recognition that there is no way of manipulating our environment that is without cost or consequence - and thus also of a recognition that we are inextricably bound up with the destiny of our world. There is no guarantee that the world we live in will "tolerate" us indefinitely if we prove ourselves unable to live within its constraints.
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A huge amount of success in life comes from learning as a child how to make good habits. It's good to help kids understand that when they do certain things habitually, they're reinforcing patterns.
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I realize that 'Postcards' was like input, and 'Ghostwriting' was output. I had all these frustrations and feelings before I did those two projects. 'Postcards' was something that brought new life and creative inspiration into the record, while 'Ghostwriting' was relieving myself.
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I was learning to track rhinoceroses in Africa and tracked right up on an animal that really I thought was going to kill me.
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'How come you didn’t recognize me?' Hentman said crossly. 'Aren’t I world-famous? Or maybe you don’t watch TV.'
