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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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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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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When I talk to CEOs, they're not educated about social media.
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One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one's hand and know everything!
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The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.
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I haven't got the time to sit here arguing with someone whose idea of a coherent foreign policy is what comes up in Google when you type in peace!
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I didn't want to become a chocolatier among others, buying ready-to-use couverture. I wanted to take the same approach I follow in my cuisine: putting the product first, revealing the authentic taste of the products.
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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.
