Philip K. Dick Quotes
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
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That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were really there - all that fun stuff stayed in the show, and I think that's why everybody remembers it so fondly because that just doesn't happen anymore on television.
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I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.
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I write and do all my arrangements on my Mac. And um, I use Logic Pro, which is a great software program.
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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
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I always collect images, maybe because I was working with historic material - but even if I were working with contemporary material, I would do the same thing. I keep a kind of index of them while I'm working. I find them incredibly useful, not so much to illustrate a time, but to give some sense of the feeling of a time.
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I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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I've always been involved with charities and things like that, but when I started communicating with the fans and hearing their stories about the lives they lead, it really made an impact on me.
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People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs.
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We don't fall in love and then get married; instead we get married and then learn what love requires.
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I would say that the things that have really left a mark on me have more to do with my family and my children's lives rather than a film role.
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I'm basically turning my apartment into an armory.
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It is also a natural thing for a serious young man that he should form for himself as precise an idea as possible of the goal of his desires.
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I really don't know what exactly all the songs mean. Sometimes other people have meanings and when I hear them I think, 'That's really a better meaning than I thought, and perfectly valid, given the words that exist.' So part of what makes a song really good is that people take in different meanings, and they apply them, and they might be more powerful than the ones I'm thinking.
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The Martians are always coming.
