David Gerrold Quotes
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
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Every guy should own one good pair of jeans.
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I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
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I hope to stay light on my feet, to work in many modes, to seek inspiration always, and avoid the fatal. But, as we all know, it is the price of life to burn out, both metaphorically and literally.
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The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point.
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I like to call the ethos I grew up with 'Oklahoma values.' But you'd be just as accurate if you said 'American values.' Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that's American.
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I don't invest in companies where my mental model is that they need to get themselves acquired in the next few years - or ever.
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I feel lucky in that I don't really have to go to college to study something job-specific. I just want to go to learn about what is interesting to me and learn about the classes that you don't really get to take in high school because you have to take the basics.
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Just breathe at the end of the line or on the punctuation. If you lose that, and lose the iambic pentameter, you'll lose all the sense of what you're saying. And if you do breathe, you'll find that Shakespeare's verse is like a surfboard.
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The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.
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When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life.
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The thing that has always disturbed me about
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The freedom of birds is an insult to me. I'd have them all in zoos. - The judge.
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The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake.
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When a person applies enthusiasm to his job, the job will itself become alive with exciting new possibilities.
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Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding.
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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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I think I exist, therefore I exist. I think.
