Philip K. Dick Quotes
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I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.
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So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
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Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.
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We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.
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I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.
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I love summertime more than anything else in the world. That is the only thing that gets me through the winter, knowing that summer is going to be there.
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And I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, maybe like I could have. But I had to do what I had to do to make myself successful.
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A leader is a dealer in hope.
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The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
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I have a great little camera, and I had a theory that if the story is interesting, it doesn't matter what medium you shoot it on. You just have to make a good film.
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Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.
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I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or 'incentives' for skill.
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Curiously, a principle affects your life whether you are aware of it or not. For instance, the principle of gravity was working long before the apple ever fell on Newton's head. But once it did, and he understood it, then we as a society were free to harness this principle to create, among other things, airline flight.
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Set goals but be flexible.
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By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.
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Skill is a function of chance. It’s an intuitive best-use of chance situations.
