David Gerrold Quotes
I think we built the right future. If it's a choice between the flying car or the Internet, tablets and smartphones, I'll take what we've got.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.
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No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor - they couldn't believe it - after all that time. You know, it wasn't a compilation, it was new songs.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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I've been training quite hard.
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A lot of people come work with me because I keep an open set, and people can visit. Julia Roberts used to have friends visit on 'Pretty Woman.'
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I'm really excited about furthering my film career in Bollywood and Hollywood.
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The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.
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Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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To film in water is three times harder than just on land.
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.
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In 2007, there weren't any other accelerators, at least that I was aware of. We were almost the prototypical Y Combinator founders: We were highly technical but had never done a startup before. We also didn't know anyone in the Valley - investors, other entrepreneurs, potential hires. YC seemed like a great way to bootstrap that network.
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I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.
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I had a high-flying career. Never wanted to get married. All I wanted to do was have some fun.
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Rabelais offers a vision of the future of print culture as a consumer's paradise of applied knowledge. (p. 167)
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The whole thing is really quite pathetic. Here we have two self-obsessed schoolboys who spend all their time thinking about themselves and their future and not the future of the country.
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When thinking about starting a business, I think it’s actually better to start in a trough and come to market in a peak, than the other way around. Frankly, if anything does, and it’s almost cliche, space has a long-term future.
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Negotiating with Iran and believing they will keep their word is naive at best.
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I think we built the right future. If it's a choice between the flying car or the Internet, tablets and smartphones, I'll take what we've got.
