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.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Time
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• The science of life is changing hearts and minds.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Life
  • Science
  • Changing

• There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Teach
  • Something
  • Excellent

• 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.

  

  Yishan Wong
  • People
  • Community
  • Powerful

• 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.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Country
  • Die
  • Suffering

• 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.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Great
  • God
  • Evil

• Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Friends
  • Need
  • Youth

• 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.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Man
  • Memories
  • Famous

• 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.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Age
  • Picture
  • Learn

• 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.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Country
  • Always
  • Privilege

• 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.

  

  Tara Lynne Barr
  • Doing
  • Young
  • Wanted

• 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.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Character
  • Think
  • Hate

• 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.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Always
  • Never
  • Understand

• I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Thought
  • Going
  • Surgeon

• You never know what the future brings.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Future
  • Know
  • Never

• I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Music
  • Marriage
  • Picture

• Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Work
  • Yourself
  • Speak

• 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.

  

  Ian Watson
  • War
  • Bad
  • Think

• Each person can make their difference.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Persons
  • Differences

• The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing - that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world - is what I wish for all.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Work
  • Science

• Now we are in a situation in which for a significant part of the industrial world too much could become a danger, especially too much of the things which are really not good for us in such large quantities.

  

  Marvin Harris
  • World
  • Good

• I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

  

  Maurice Jarre

• I don't feel very glowing, especially after wearing makeup - and not necessarily my choice of makeup - for 12 hours straight on a movie set. When I'm playing a character, her look is sometimes different from my own.

  

  Jessica Biel
  • Different
  • Character
  • Movie

• 'How come you didn’t recognize me?' Hentman said crossly. 'Aren’t I world-famous? Or maybe you don’t watch TV.'

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • World
  • Famous