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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Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.
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I came from a real tough neighborhood. On my street, the kids take hubcaps - from moving cars.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.
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If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.
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Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small...and you will escape the jealousy of the great.
