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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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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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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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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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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Being happy in your skin that's what it's all about.
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You cannot love someone you do not know - not unless you water down the definition of love so much that it becomes meaningless.
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Let us come together before we're annihilated.
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There is not a need to know my friend’s caste and religion in order to remain friends with them; rather they are my family members who I got from different mothers.
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I think you ought to say so, otherwise your comparison is entirely worthless.
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I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white man's crimes against him.
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All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
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Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
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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.
