Samuel R. Delany (Samuel Ray Delany Jr.) Quotes
The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.
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People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
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We all have the archetype inside us of the enlightened being.
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I don't know where I come from but I'm here now so deal with it.
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I have 250 contacts, employees, and investors who, anytime they come across something relevant, will share it with me. I wake up to 10-15 links that people have explicitly recommended for me. I don't have to look for news anymore; it flows to me.
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I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.
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As we try to compete in this global marketplace, we need to rebuild our infrastructure. We need to rebuild our schools. We need to make sure that teachers and first responders and veterans who are coming home from serving our country so proudly have jobs waiting for them.
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No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
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Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations.
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Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.
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Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.
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I've been insane from a very early age.
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It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.
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I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.
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Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history.
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In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.
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I believe that the presidential term should be limited.
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The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.
