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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The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls.
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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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I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell enough idea, but you would think the novelty would have worn off by now and everyone would get back to playing baseball.
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It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.
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The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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Maybe I am naive about certain things. But I'm glad. I know all I want to know.
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The Martians are always coming.
