Samuel R. Delany (Samuel Ray Delany Jr.) Quotes
A sentence has meaning in the sense that a train has a track, not that a train has a passenger.
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We are all seduced by charismatic people, whether it's in your office or in the bus or in the train. There are people who just, like, come through the door, and everybody turns around and looks at them and feels drawn to them.
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For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.
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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.
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I have seven disciplines to train for, and so I try to complete them all every week.
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I love dancing just because I've done it my whole life and it's definitely what I want to do. I feel like, I want to train with acting and do movies. Those two are my main priorities. I definitely want to be able to sing and model, too. I definitely love those, too.
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We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.
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A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
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I've always had a chip on my shoulder. It kind of drives me. It's something that allows me to train harder, train longer, work better.
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It's funny: sometimes with 'Spaced,' people would try and read too much into something I'd done, with the references meaning something more than they do.
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I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time.
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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
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How can you train if you're constantly worried about getting injured?
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I train and prepare for every contest the same so I can compete to the best of my abilities.
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There's no meaning to life without music. Everybody has their own connect with music.
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Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?
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For me, every translation is a new book, with the translator inevitably broadening the meaning of the original book in any translation.
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I train hard. A lot of people that I train with, they get blown away by how hard I'm able to train.
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Most humans feel the transcendent temptation, the emotional drive to festoon the universe with large-scale meaning.
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A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
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Bermuda is not even tropical. The charm of the tropics - the heat, the chaos - is not there.
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A sentence has meaning in the sense that a train has a track, not that a train has a passenger.
