Philip K. Dick Quotes
The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down.
Quotes to Explore
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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The first step... shall be to lose the way.
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Young people really want you to give them a road map, and they will follow it to a tee. If you tell them, 'These are the eight steps you have to take to be successful,' they will do all eight very earnestly.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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My best time is a 3:20 in Paris in 2010, and I trained to try for a 3-hour marathon in New York, but Hurricane Sandy hit, and it was canceled.
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If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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I'm usually bikini-ready all year round.
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I like fighters who come to fight.
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When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
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I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function - the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent.
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If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
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I have no television - I hate it.
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I played without fear. I've done that since I first kicked a ball in my back garden as a five-year-old, whether it's been my first game, my 100th game, or my 500th game.
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I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.
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I am a Marine Corps veteran, but more importantly - or as important maybe - I'm the chairman of the Oversight Investigation Subcommittee and the House Veterans Affair Committee.
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I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
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On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.
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The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down.
