David Gerrold Quotes
Study what you love, and you'll never have to work a day in your life. It'll be one great adventure.
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
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I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.
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In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'
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No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.
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Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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The son of Taiwan is the cattle of Taiwan.
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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
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People come up and say very nice things about my work, like, 'You were great in 'Blood Diamond!'
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Neil Armstrong was probably one of the most human guys I've ever known in my life.
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Study what you love, and you'll never have to work a day in your life. It'll be one great adventure.
