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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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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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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Only through apprehending, by means of present-day creations, how art is created, can the creations of other periods be genuinely appreciated.
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A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government is effectively subsidizing some jobs over others.
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No city owns me, you know what I'm saying? I'm from New York, but no city owns me. Nobody can bottle up my sound and box me in. Yes, I am a rapper, but am I a New York rapper? No. I am from New York, I love New York to death, but I will not conform myself to one place, no.
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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
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Music is the true breath of life. We eat so we won't starve to death. We sing so we can hear ourselves live.
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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.
