Philip K. Dick Quotes

It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense.

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• You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.

  

  G-Eazy
  • You
  • Cool
  • Ability

• I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Different
  • Remember

• It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Important
  • Song
  • Meaning

• The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.

  

  Oskar Schindler
  • Jews
  • Were

• Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.

  

  Zoe Cassavetes
  • People
  • Struggle
  • Movies

• The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Truth
  • American
  • America

• If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Reason
  • Always
  • Follow

• At first, Uniqlo was a casual chain on the back streets of Hiroshima. Then... we became a national brand in Japan. So, the next step is to become a global brand.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • First
  • Step
  • Brand

• If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, and I don't write it down, then I could be at lunch with you, and it's like there's a pile of laundry in my brain that I haven't put away, and I struggle to really listen, so that's always been important to me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting

• I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Faith

• Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Myself
  • Anger
  • Peaceful

• I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Remember
  • Try
  • Just

• Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Pure

• You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • People
  • Day
  • Treat

• I really love all types of music. I'm really open to that. I really love Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake and some James Taylor and Elton John stuff.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Music
  • Love
  • Open

• There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • People
  • Trying
  • Pressure

• People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • People
  • Think
  • Stupid

• At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Growing
  • Lies
  • Cold

• When I'm not running, I cycle about 30 miles a day. I use the biking as cross training. I'm kind of a maniac. I race everybody.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Running
  • Day
  • Training

• I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Power

• Everyone wanted my emotions to be very simple. They wanted me to say, "I was poor and I was unhappy, and now I've got money and I'm really happy."

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Simple

• Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • American
  • Opinion

• Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.

  

  Jean-Luc Godard
  • Moments

• It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Believe
  • Amazing