Philip K. Dick Quotes

Mental illness is not funny.

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• I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Now

• My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.

  

  Viktor Vekselberg
  • Opinion
  • Media
  • Too Much

• I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Attention
  • Like
  • Camera

• Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Good
  • Happiness
  • Flower

• I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Deal
  • Threats
  • Ultimatums

• Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • People
  • Better
  • Yourself

• I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Pay
  • Beatles
  • Tribute

• Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Money
  • Doing

• For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Government
  • Service
  • Ethics

• The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Up
  • Health
  • Fitness

• My daughter passed away in 2003.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Daughter
  • Away
  • Passed

• It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Up
  • School
  • Done

• I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Today
  • Reading
  • Brown

• Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Women
  • Career
  • Proud

• My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Father
  • Name
  • Grandfather

• For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Up
  • End
  • Very

• I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • True
  • More
  • Countryside

• As soon as you say that there is a community called, let's say, black Americans, you've immediately created a boundary line - who's in that group, who's outside that group.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Black
  • Community
  • Group

• We took 'BFF' around to try and take it somewhere else because we were really proud of it, and it had gotten all that critical acclaim, and Twitter fans were going crazy about it.

  

  Lennon Parham
  • Proud
  • Crazy

• History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose.

  

  John H. Plumb
  • History
  • Purpose
  • Value

• By harnessing our teammates' unique skills and passion for giving, our professional networks and partnerships, and our financial resources, we will inspire the dreamers and doers of tomorrow and drive positive, lasting change in our communities across the globe.

  

  Dennis Muilenburg
  • Giving
  • Passion
  • Positive

• Like everyone, I was a huge fan of David Boies, and from what I knew about him, I thought he might 'get' me. So I sent him an email. I said I want to practice law but that I didn't want to stop writing and I asked if there was any way I could practice law for him.

  

  Elizabeth Wurtzel
  • Writing
  • Law
  • Stop

• Half of my life, I've had people staring at me because they think I'm funny-looking and ugly. The other half of my life, I've had people staring at me because they think I'm fascinating. Everything neutralises. It's more of a statement on society and how weird it is.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • Life
  • Society

• Mental illness is not funny.

  

  Philip K. Dick
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