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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It is easier to denature plutonium than it is to denature the evil spirit of man.
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I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else.
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My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine.
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I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.
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For someone making a pilot, assuming the talent is there and you can maneuver the system properly, it's just a matter of standing your ground and trying to make something great until you are making enough money for the studio that they let you keep making it.
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Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small...and you will escape the jealousy of the great.
