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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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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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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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.
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I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.
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I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.
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A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.
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The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people think you can just throw them into a story and suddenly whatever you're writing is 28% cooler. But that doesn't work. All that does is make dragons into some boring cliche.
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I am Jewish, Italian, American, Catholic.
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This new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and color. On the contrary, it should find its expression in the abstraction of form and color, that is to say, in the straight line and the clearly defined primary color.
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If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?
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We have to have an economy that is strong for everyone, working families who believe they can get ahead and give the children a better quality of life.
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I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.
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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.
