Philip K. Dick Quotes
'Maybe his characteristics are recessive. Maybe ours will cancel his out.' 'I wouldn't lay any money on that,' Baines said. 'I think I know already which of the two strains is going to turn up dominant.' He grinned wryly. 'I mean, I'm making a good guess. It won't be us.'
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Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.
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You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
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Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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I am happy with what I've done.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going.
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In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.
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Andy Grammer is probably the closest friend I have in the music industry, so touring with him was just incredible. He's such a soulful, kind guy, and he gives great advice. And he also scares me a lot. He does a lot of pranks.
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We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.
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Anything which interferes with my social life is a no-no.
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When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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I think the sidekick makes the number one look good.
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We know that our cells are speaking to each other.
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'Maybe his characteristics are recessive. Maybe ours will cancel his out.' 'I wouldn't lay any money on that,' Baines said. 'I think I know already which of the two strains is going to turn up dominant.' He grinned wryly. 'I mean, I'm making a good guess. It won't be us.'
