Philip K. Dick Quotes
'Are you an official of some kind? Like a greeter? Or from the L. A. Chamber of Commerce? I've had dealings with them and they’re all right.''No,' Buckman said. 'I'm an individual. Like you.'
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't need people to tell me, 'You need to use black girls.' I did for 20 years; it's not a new thing for me.
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I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a bird, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I'd just like it to say: 'Maeve Binchy, storyteller' and people could look at the name and remember that they'd seen it somewhere else.
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I don't do office work at home.
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The team with the best players wins.
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Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.
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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.
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In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak.
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I'm really not good with the pickups. I'm a klutz and don't have a line of gab. I'm only good if they know who I am. So I'll just sit and wait for somebody to say, 'Aren't you ... ?' and then go from there.
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Actually I made up the term 'object-oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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No fixed capital can yield any revenue but by means of a circulating capital.
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That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody.
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There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved.
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I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavor.
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Nothing is impossible to us, except of course, that which is contrary to the laws of nature and the Universe.
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We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.
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I buy so much when I go through airports: I buy psychology magazines; I buy 'Mind,' another magazine, 'New Scientist,' 'Scientific America.'
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I've always been interested in the antihero myself.
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'Are you an official of some kind? Like a greeter? Or from the L. A. Chamber of Commerce? I've had dealings with them and they’re all right.''No,' Buckman said. 'I'm an individual. Like you.'
