Samuel R. Delany (Samuel Ray Delany Jr.) Quotes
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They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.
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Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.
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I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.
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'Madden' is all about speed, and the Falcons have it on both sides of the ball. I love playing sports games. I played my PlayStation so much, I pretty much wore it out.
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Africa is the future.
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After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
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When a certain swathe of India's population considers the country's ancient past, it doesn't see a country fragmented into kingdoms, savaged by caste divisions, and mired in poverty; rather, what's envisioned is a vast, unified Hindu empire stretching from Kashmir to the Indian tip at Kanyakumari.
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Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.
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Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
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Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.
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I worry about Zimbabweans. They bend, they bend, they bend, they bend - where do the people break? How long can they go on scrounging for food in garbage dumps and using the moisture from sewage drains to plant vegetables?
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I love the sport and being competitive.
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My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance.
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Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.
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The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.
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You should have certainty in what you do. Anyone who has done anything in this world was hated. If you're not hated, you've done nothing.
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There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
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It is always good to be on the scoresheet.
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I talk to bankers, distributors, marketing people. I used to sit at home in my tracksuit bottoms, and the real excitement of my day would be going out to get a copy of 'Private Eye' and a latte.
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Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling?
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The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
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What you are will make you what you will become.
