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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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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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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Even when I'm old and grey I'll probably be cruising around and bunny-hopping and stuff. In the words of the Descendents, "I don't want to grow up."
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From whom are we to hide the visibility of our discipleship? Certainly not from other men, for we are told to let them see our light. No. We are to hide it from ourselves. Our task is simply to keep on following, looking only to our Leader who goes on before, taking no notice of ourselves or of what we are doing.
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Skill is a function of chance. It’s an intuitive best-use of chance situations.
