David Gerrold Quotes
When we look up at the night sky and wonder, 'Is there anyone else out there?' we're also asking who we are in relation to them.
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Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contract that I sign with myself to say, 'I don't care what happens - I'm going to stay on this path. I'm going to try and see this through; I'm going to give it my best shot, my best effort.'
Gail Devers -
I'm not averse to telling people off.
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I think, for any actor, dealing with the paranormal is intriguing.
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My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.) (6.54)
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I feel as if someone is going to come along, feel my collar and say: 'Do you really think you can get people to read books you've made up about people that don't exist?'
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What we should really be thinking about is what it would look like for a truly intelligent technological species to be interacting with their planet's atmosphere.
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Almost everything else I have done during my adult years has been affected to some extent by my name - by my father's position, if you will. But in the air, I had no name; to the Federal Aviation Agency I was simply Comanche Nine-Nine POP. The quality of my landings, navigation and judgment were mine alone.
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When we look up at the night sky and wonder, 'Is there anyone else out there?' we're also asking who we are in relation to them.
