Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould Quotes
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I'm kind of a crazy person about hand sanitizer. I carry the plain ones that smell like aloe, from Target or CVS.
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
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When you do a half-hour show, there's only so much you can do. At best, you're going to get a character with two-and-a-half dimensions.
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I would rather have gotten married than have a Hollywood contract.
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What makes me uncomfortable about [Barack] Obama is what makes me uncomfortable about any young politician who has not yet been bloodied inside the Beltway.
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Forget market or publishers or whatever. Just write with fire and joy, and in my own experience, those are the stories of mine people have wanted to read.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
