Philip K. Dick Quotes

The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.

Philip K. Dick

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 16, 1928 - March 2, 1982

Topics

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In terms of being vulgar, I don't think you need to be violent unless it's slapstick, violence to yourself. That can be funny - we've all tripped and fallen on our faces.

Andy Dick

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Cops, more than firefighters, EMTs or other public safety employees, almost always get the first glance of the human condition at the worst, most lethal moments; nobody calls a cop with good news.

Mike Barnicle

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We don't always choose moments. You know, sometimes they choose us.

Loretta Lynch

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Definitely, I have a New York personality.

Dinah Manoff

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I think complacency is what you allow it to be.

Draymond Green

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I've heard it said that umpires are necessary evil. Well, we are necessary, but we are not evil. We are hard-working and dedicated people whose primary interest is to make sure the game is played fairly. We are the integrity of the game.

Doug Harvey

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Obama really changed the way in which design can be used effectively for a candidate.

Debbie Millman

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What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.

Brendan Behan

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Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.

Annie Jump Cannon

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I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.

William Petersen

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Before I went to boarding school, I had never read a fashion magazine. I grew up on a council estate in London, and fashion magazines were a luxury item that weren't even on my mind. The closest I got to a fashion magazine was my cousin's 'Top of the Pops' magazines, where we would learn the lyrics to every song and put posters on our walls.

Philomena Kwao

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I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain.

Ridley Scott

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