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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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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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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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.
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I have lifestyle requirements. Photos, meetings, lunches, dinners, facial care, tooth care. It requires an exorbitant amount of money.
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Soul is a colourless thing. I don't think you have to be a black person to be automatically soulful. I respect Justin Bieber and Justin Timberlake; they do what they do. For me, my philosophy has always been 'contribution before competition.'
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There are really only two ways to teach. You can inspire the student to voluntarily and enthusiastically choose to do the hard work necessary to get a great education, or you can attempt to require it of him.
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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
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In the works of Duchamp, space begins to walk and take on form; it becomes a machine that spins arguments and philosophizes; it resists movement with delay and delay with irony.
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Cooperation on the international level could help to solve the problem of sources of sharp capital flow volatility and its consequences.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
