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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I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!
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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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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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Time stays, we go.
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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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Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with.
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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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while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.
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As Aristotle said, happiness is not a condition that is produced or stands on its own; rather, it is a frame of mind that accompanies an activity. But another frame of mind comes first. It is a steely determination to do well.
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The Martians are always coming.
