Samuel R. Delany (Samuel Ray Delany Jr.) Quotes
Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.
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I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.
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I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
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As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.
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The Tea Party has very close affinities with independent third-party movements like the George Wallace movement. The Tea Party is still inchoate, still trying to figure out what it's going to become.
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We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.
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We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.
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How are we to reconcile our supreme duty towards memory with the need to forget that is essential to life? No generation has had to confront this paradox with such urgency. The survivors wanted to communicate everything to the living: the victim's solitude and sorrow, the tears of mothers driven to madness, the prayers of the doomed beneath a fiery sky.
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God’s grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious. We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite. God sets limits to His patience and forbearance. He warns us over and over again that someday the ax will fall and His judgment will be poured out.
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Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
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She was his and he was hers. They had under-the-skin privileges.
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I'm a self-taught musician so how I read music is kind of very weak and I kind of read my own version of tablature, I write my own crappy reminders on what I'm playing.
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I told my doctor I think my wife has VD. He gave himself a shot of penicillin.
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No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.
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I've worked with Woody Allen twice and he was like, "Whatever you want to change, it's up to you. If you want to change the words, make them your own."
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It is always man's ideas which drive his actions. This has, at times, resulted in great evil; but as we look around us, we cannot doubt that it has resulted in greater good.
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I'm not wild about accepting responsibility without authority. Why should my people be?
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You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.
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Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.
