David Gerrold Quotes
You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for.Live well, my son.
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I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
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People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.
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I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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It's not healthy to be jealous.
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Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.
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My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
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Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there.
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Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.
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Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.
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I'm in the process of convincing my parents to sell me their house so I can just live in my childhood bedroom forever. I figure it might make me age slower.
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I like having a paperback original. And until literature catches up with the culture - the violence, language, syntax, compression, concision, complexity and diversity that the Internet offers - books still make sense.
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You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for.Live well, my son.
