Philip K. Dick Quotes
Isn’t a miserable reality better than the most interesting illusion? Or is it illusion, Barney? I don’t know anything about philosophy; you explain it to me because all I know is religious faith and that doesn’t equip me to understand this.
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
Aaron Siskind
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Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.
Zachary Quinto
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
Irwin Shaw
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
Hanna Rosin
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
Kapil Sibal
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Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.
Dan Jenkins
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There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.
Oscar De La Hoya
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
Walter Dean Myers
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I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
Patricia Highsmith
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You can't, no matter what anyone says, build a movie around someone.
Campbell Scott
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
Orison Swett Marden
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
Barry Goldwater
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
Ferdinand Marcos
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We saw simply distribution was changing, content, premium content, premium stars; we're going to be able to do more in the world as it evolves.
Patrick Whitesell
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Friendship is the complete explanation of what a Cheetah Girl is - if you have that true friendship, you can conquer anything you want.
Sabrina Bryan
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
Abbas Kiarostami
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We didn't come here to become Washington, we came here to change Washington.
Kristi Noem
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It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.
Gail Devers -
Today, it's almost the outlier if people are not photographing what they ate and then sharing that in real time.
Danny Meyer
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Just remember that you don't have to be what they want you to be.
Muhammad Ali
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When people who believe themselves to be addicts or alcoholics come under great stress or trauma, they mentally give themselves permission to drink or use drugs as a remedy.
Chris Prentiss
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Isn’t a miserable reality better than the most interesting illusion? Or is it illusion, Barney? I don’t know anything about philosophy; you explain it to me because all I know is religious faith and that doesn’t equip me to understand this.
Philip K. Dick