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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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
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From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
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If I hadn't learned to lay on a two-hander once in a while, I'd never have left Flin Flon.
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Sure, politics ain't bean-bag. 'Tis a man's game, an' women, childer, cripples an' prohybitionists 'd do well to keep out iv it.
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My first wife is a good woman, I still can't say nothing bad about her other than the fact that we had a difference on religion. She wanted someone who was a Muslim who shared those values. And I was like a heathen. I had to stay home on Sundays and watch the football game.
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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.
