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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Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
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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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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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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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Just by my home is an entrance to the sewers they used in the Warsaw uprising. I grew up knowing people died down there. Warsaw was once a battleground; then it became a morgue. It's a city littered with ghosts. And that never left me.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Typically, the end result is lazy, rich cartoonists.
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You are my heart, my life, my entire existence.
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Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.
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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.
