Samuel R. Delany Quotes

'Dhalgren' is the kind of book in which you can look for pretty much anything you want. I tried to put as much into it as I could at the time.

Samuel R. Delany

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 1, 1942

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I'm elected. I don't report to any politician. I report to the people. If I had to report to any politician, I'd quit tomorrow. I'm not tall, dark and handsome. They don't vote for me because I look like a movie star. I can't get that vote. People keep voting for me because they like what I do.

Joe Arpaio

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I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.

Melissa Etheridge

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So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in.

Sonia Sotomayor

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I was excited by the process of Pandora, which I still think is a decent product. Not as great in actuality as it sounds. After the first hour, its weaknesses start to show up.

Trent Reznor

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I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.

Rita Coolidge

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Michael Jackson is an accidental civil rights leader - an accidental pioneer. He broke ground and barriers in so many different realms in artistry, in pictures, in movies, in music, you name it.

Don Lemon

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I reached a point where nothing scares me in this industry, mainly because I grew up in it. My earliest memory is 4 years old, getting in a wrestling ring.

Cody Rhodes

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Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.

Bruno Mars

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I play 'Just Dance' all the time - actually my girlfriends and I have slumber parties where we actually do this on a monthly basis and make total fools of ourselves.

Brittany Snow

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New York City is one of the best cities in the world for walking: it's virtually impossible to get lost.

Philomena Kwao

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To me all men are boy-men. I don't know any man that's actually mature.

Seth Rogen

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Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special.

Kit Williams

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