Philip K. Dick Quotes
He awoke-and wanted Mars. The valleys, he thought. What would it be like to trudge among them? Great and greater yet: the dream grew as he became fully conscious, the dream and the yearning. He could almost feel the enveloping presence of the other world, which only Government agents and high officials had seen. A clerk like himself? Not likely.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.
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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
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Before, I could meet and greet all my fans one by one, but now, it's hard to remember all of their names. And my actions can sometimes cause misunderstandings. If I bow to one side, I've heard people from the other side ask why I didn't bow there.
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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Would I have watched another season of 'Breaking Bad'? Of course. Would I have watched another two seasons of 'Breaking Bad'? Of course. The fact that I would easily have watched much, much more than I got made the ending so much more poignant and stronger and better for me.
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Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
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Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.
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In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy.
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I used to be absolutely addicted to the gym and I do still love it.
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I never went to high school. I never really finished eighth grade. I was kicked out of seventh grade once and eighth grade twice. Mainly for not showing up and not doing it. Then I went to an alternative high school for part of what would have been ninth grade and part of what would have been 10th grade.
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He awoke-and wanted Mars. The valleys, he thought. What would it be like to trudge among them? Great and greater yet: the dream grew as he became fully conscious, the dream and the yearning. He could almost feel the enveloping presence of the other world, which only Government agents and high officials had seen. A clerk like himself? Not likely.
