Philip K. Dick Quotes
I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.
Quotes to Explore
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Because I'm in the public eye, I think that I would prefer to date someone regular who isn't in the news all the time, but I think even if you date someone regular, they'll still put it in the news.
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Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
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When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.
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The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
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I don't know what 'famous' is, really.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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You can't make people laugh for more than half an hour and be consistent.
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My journey has been so full of struggle and I just want to be able to offer some help and some general ideas to people that really need it the most.
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And the insidious thing is that people will either see a movie because it did well last weekend or won't see it because it didn't do well.
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I know people could tell incredible stories. People have been in concentration camps, or women being raped, or a man going to war and not recovering from it. People have been robbed and beaten. A lot of people have had strong events in their life, which I didn't.
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I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.
