Philip K. Dick Quotes
Giving me a new idea is like handing a cretin a loaded gun, but I do thank you anyhow, bang, bang.
Philip K. Dick
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
J. D. Vance
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You can't change the market; the market just is.
Wayne Rogers
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Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
Zubin Mehta
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
Patricia Marx
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
Mandy Moore
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
Venus Williams
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I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda.
Barney Frank
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I love playing sport.
Damian Lewis
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In order to be vigorously continued, nuclear power must be profoundly modified.
Carlo Rubbia
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I've always looked the same, and every 10 years, I'm a little bit in fashion.
Gaby Hoffmann
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I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
Fiona Shaw
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The process, not the results, have to be the reason a writer writes. Otherwise, creating a four-hundred-page novel is just too daunting a task.
Nancy Kress
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If democracy is to survive Facebook, that company must realize the outsized role it now plays as both the public forum where our strident democratic drama unfolds and as the vehicle for those who aspire to control that drama's course. Facebook, welcome to the big leagues.
Antonio Garcia Martinez
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Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet and Instagram, film clip and sound bite, as sporting event, investment opportunity, Tinder hookup, and interest rate--its value measured not by its texture or its substance but by the speed of its delivery, a distinction apparent to Andy Warhol when he supposedly said that any painting that takes longer than five minutes to make is a bad painting.
Lewis H. Lapham
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I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.
Angelina Jolie
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We learn, grow and become compassionate and generous as much through exile as homecoming, as much through loss as gain, as much through giving things away as in receiving what we believe to be our due.
David Whyte
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Giving me a new idea is like handing a cretin a loaded gun, but I do thank you anyhow, bang, bang.
Philip K. Dick
