David Gerrold Quotes
I won't even try to predict the specifics, but I think the ebook - as a medium - could be a game-changer.
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For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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Congress seems to be very good at doing nothing.
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The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.
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We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.
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Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
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In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life.
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I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.
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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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I always have a book that I write during competition. I need it with me, just to read back and reflect and look forward. If I'm feeling anxious, it helps me.
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The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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I know that nobody who hasn't been in battle or under attack can know what war is. But even in terms of being safe at home, it's also true that many Americans who think they know what being at war is, don't. Including, of course, George W. Bush and his people. They don't have a clue.
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Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.
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I want to do what I can to give the next generation of athletes added advantages in the game.
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The better the coaching has become, the worse the game has become.
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I won't even try to predict the specifics, but I think the ebook - as a medium - could be a game-changer.
