Philip K. Dick Quotes
It sounds like they’re saying passive life is good, he thought. But there is no such thing as passive life. That’s a contradiction.
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I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
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You don't have to get it right the first time.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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My whole life is a theater piece.
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After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
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And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.
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I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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Beard's secret is always to be slightly on the edge but to pull back from disaster at the last minute.
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I hope there is a place for me in the country landscape, but I'm not too precious about it, either.
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I always tell people there's only one trick to writing: You have to write something that people are willing to pay money to read. It doesn't have to be very good, necessarily, but somebody, somewhere, has got to be willing to pay money for it.
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Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.
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In contrast to a dream a reverie cannot be recounted. To be communicated, it must be written, written with emotion and taste, being relived all the more strongly because it is being written down. Here, we are touching the realm of written love. It is going out of fashion, but the benefits remain. There are still souls for whom love is the contact of two poetries, the fusion of two reveries.
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It sounds like they’re saying passive life is good, he thought. But there is no such thing as passive life. That’s a contradiction.
