Samuel R. Delany (Samuel Ray Delany Jr.) Quotes
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If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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It's important to have a dream no matter how old you are.
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Nothing recedes like progress.
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If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.
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Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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Gossip is easy, politics is hard.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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I made the decision to end business relationships with the Trump Organization simply because it was the right thing to do. No one approached me, asked me or pressured me to take this action.
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I first started going to shows when I was about 16 - seeing local bands. I mean, I loved music before that, and I played a bit of guitar when I was younger and thought maybe I'd become a guitar teacher or something, but when I saw other kids doing it, I was like, 'Whoa, these are great bands! I can do it, too.'
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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.
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The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.
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One of the great things about our democracy is it expresses itself in all sorts of ways. And that includes people protesting. I've been the subject of protests during the course of my eight years and I suspect that there's not a president in our history that at some point hasn't been subject to these protests.
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I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies.
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We intend to make this world the most beautiful, glorious planet that any human being can imagine and, really, beyond anything any human being can imagine.
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I think India's policy that the openness of trade should be carried through a multilateral process is the right one.
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You will say good-bye for all the right reasons. You're tired of living in wait for his apocalypse. You have your own fight on your hands, and though it's no bigger or more noble than his, it will require all of your energy. It's you who has to hold on to earth. You have to tighten your grip -- which means letting go of him.
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Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes.
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Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.