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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Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.
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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 first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
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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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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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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 have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.
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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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I look forward to physical activity; it's a release from stress and a nice distraction. It puts me in a better mood. I never used to take classes before, but then I tore my plantar fascia so I couldn't run. I started taking SoulCycle classes, which I know are polarizing. People have strong opinions. Even though I can run again, I still go.
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The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the sun. Then teach them the concepts of North, South, East and West, and that they relate to where they happen to be on the planet's surface at that time. Everything else will follow.
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Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear.
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We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a writer's friend.
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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.
