Philip K. Dick Quotes

If you can get them to see the world as you do, they will think as you do.

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• I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Book

• The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Nobody
  • Some
  • Manufacturing

• And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Like
  • Write
  • Lyrics

• I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Want
  • Dark
  • Negative

• It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • May
  • Cold
  • Friendship

• In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Work
  • Smart
  • Profound

• I'm not the type of person that is forced.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Person
  • Type
  • Forced

• If I had the opportunity to buy the latest movie that's out that month and watch it on the comfort of my big screen TV, I would pay for that.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Movie
  • Opportunity
  • Comfort

• If I can just be thought of as Omari Hardwick who had a really, really solid career, and whose work is appreciated in its own right, I think that would be a great legacy to leave behind.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Work
  • Great
  • Career

• No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • End
  • Corruption
  • Incidents

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Different
  • History
  • Violence

• I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Freedom

• If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.

  

  Maimonides
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• One thing any DJ needs in his crate, especially at a barbecue, is a selection of 15-minute-plus jams.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Needs
  • Barbecue
  • DJ

• When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Mother
  • Day
  • Air

• I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • People
  • Long
  • Woman

• 'Duty' is a refreshingly honest memoir and a moving one. Mr. Gates scrupulously identifies his flaws and mistakes: He waited too long, for example, for the military bureaucracy to fix critical supply issues like the drones needed in Iraq and took three years to replace a dysfunctional command structure in Afghanistan.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Long
  • Moving
  • Military

• There was a time when I felt I should do everything that was offered to me, you know, ride the wave.

  

  Christian Slater
  • Time

• This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists.

  

  Donald Johanson
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• The First Envoy to a world always comes alone. One alien is a curiosity, two are an invasion.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World
  • Alone
  • Curiosity

• If you can get them to see the world as you do, they will think as you do.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • World