Philip K. Dick Quotes
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The art of life is to show your hand.
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We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
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There is no myth relative to the manners and customs of the English that in my experience is more tenaciously held by the ordinary Frenchman than that the sale of a wife in the market-place is an habitual and an accepted fact in English life.
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I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big.
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Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.
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Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.
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I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.
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May we remain connected in love. We are one.
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I don't think there should be more gun control. I think there should be more education.
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If a child wants to read 'Twilight' over Middlemarch, they should be encouraged - the important thing is to get them reading in the first place.
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I starved and slept on park benches. I wrapped myself in the pages of my manuscript to keep warm. For two and a half years I took odd jobs; nothing was going to deter me.
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I'm always criticised by other Somalis and Muslims for what I'm doing as a model and married to a white man and all that.
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I never understood the idea of canceling a show when you don't like the politics of a specific state.
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Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.
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I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing.
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I try to focus moment to moment on being an aware, responsible, contributive member of society. You see trash on the ground, pick it up!
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How quickly people changed, with their interests, their feelings. Well-made phrases replaced by well-made phrases, time is a flow of words coherent only in appearance, the one who piles up the most is the one who wins.
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I could see when I was filming '21' that it was going to go a direction I wasn't comfortable with it going.
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After being accused of bribery (patronage jobs in exchange for being able to name candidates for District Attorney and City Controller) by Democratic City Chairman Peter Camiel, and being challenged by the Philadelphia Daily News to a lie detector test with himself, Commerce Director Harry Belinger, and Camiel, Rizzo accepted and said, "if this machine says a man lied, he lied." After the machine showed that Belinger and Rizzo were lying and Camiel was not, and he was asked about what he thought of lie detectors, he said, "that machine is full of crap.
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Any defense of common sense must allow that it is revisable.
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The unconscious is selective, when it learns what to listen for.
