Philip K. Dick Quotes
Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small...and you will escape the jealousy of the great.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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It was never about winning medals or being famous.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But when the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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I've never been traditional, and I hate conforming to anything.
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I'm not trying to make friends, I'm just trying to make money.
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I always choose to remember the moment that was the best of Jeanne Cooper - those photos where she's in that wild dress triumphantly hoisting up the Emmy the night she finally won the damn thing. She was so proud, so happy.
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Simple as it seems, it was a great discovery that the key of knowledge could turn both ways, that it could open, as well as lock, the door of power to the many.
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Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small...and you will escape the jealousy of the great.
