Philip K. Dick Quotes
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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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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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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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Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.
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It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that relative prosperity only momentarily, and at that always only as the harbinger of a coming crisis.
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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
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You have to play the logic of a character.
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Success is never ending, failure is never final.
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I started when I was really young. I was playing with my dad when I was 8 or 9, and I started playing shows then. I had a short stint in a DIY all-girl punk cover band.
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I think so much of young adult literature sort of gets ghettoized - the title 'young adult' makes people immediately discount it. And just like with books that get written for adults, there is plenty of young adult literature that is bad. But there is also plenty of young adult literature that is brilliant.
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In our worship of certainty we must distinguish between the sound certainty and the sham, between what is gold and what is tinsel; and then, when certainty is attained, we must remember that it is not the only good; that we can buy it at too high a price; that there is danger in perpetual quiescence as well as in perpetual motion; and that a compromise must be found in a principle of growth.
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Skill is a function of chance. It’s an intuitive best-use of chance situations.
