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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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
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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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Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell you about the character's origin or back story.
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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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Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.
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The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.
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A small girl became increasingly paralysed by her parents' frequently violent rows. Sometimes she would spend hours standing completely still in the toilet, simply because that was where she happened to be when the fight began. Finally, in moments of calm, she would take bottles of milk from the fridge or doorstep and leave them in places where she may later become trapped. Her parents were unable to understand why they found bottles of sour milk in every room in the house.
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Elegance has nothing to do with fashion.
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A sentence has meaning in the sense that a train has a track, not that a train has a passenger.
