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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As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future.
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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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And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.
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If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.
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'I just witnessed an old woman wearing joker make-up and jamming hard to music as she drove her convertible. Yes, I just saw my future.'
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The happiest times in my life were when my relationships were going well -- when I was in love with someone, and someone was loving me. But in my whole life, I haven't met the person I can sustain a relationship with yet. So I'm discontented about that. I'm angry with myself. I have regrets.
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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.
