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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Eliminating fighting would mean eliminating the jobs of the 'fighters,' meaning these guys would not have NHL careers.
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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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I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.
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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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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
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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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Tagliatelle comes from the word tagliare, meaning 'to cut.' Tagliolini are simply thinly cut tagliatelle.
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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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Grubb goes back, back... He's under the warning track and makes the play.
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Eyes see only light, ears hear only sound, but a listening heart perceives meaning.
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When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.
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It was the sibling thing, I suppose. I was fascinated by the intricate tangle of love and duty and resentment that tied them together. The glances they exchanged; the complicated balance of power established over decades; the games I would never play with rules I would never fully understand. And perhaps that was key: they were such a natural group that they made me feel remarkably singular by comparison. To watch them together was to know strongly, painfully, all that I'd been missing.
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A sentence has meaning in the sense that a train has a track, not that a train has a passenger.
