Quotes with meaning

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  • Bobby Bowden He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Woody Allen How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • June Jordan I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
    June Jordan
    American poet and civil rights activist (1939 - )
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  • Charles Dickens I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Edward VIII I am very sorry to know and hear how unreverently that most precious jewel, the Word of God, is disputed, rhymed, sung and jangled in every ale-house and tavern, contrary to the true meaning and doctrine of the same.
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  • Stuart Chase I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.
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  • Hermann Hesse I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Peggy Noonan I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.
    Peggy Noonan
    American Author, Presidential Speechwriter (1950 - )
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  • A. R. Ammons I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Bruce Nauman I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.
    Bruce Nauman
    American artist (1941 - )
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  • Bruno Dumont I think that the cinema is a physical thing. What I'm looking for is creating a physical shock with the audience. I don't care of the meaning. I don't care of the idea. I don't want to say something. I want to make a 'shock physique.'
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Orson Welles I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Andy Warhol I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Barry Diller I'm just saying if you want to reach large audiences, then rely on professionals, meaning people who are in the industry and are trained for it, rather than just idiot savants.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Anne Stevenson I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Guy Debord Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.
    Guy Debord
    French philosopher (1931 - 1994)
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  • Bertrand Russell If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Francis Schaeffer If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.
    Francis Schaeffer
    American theologian and philosopher (1912 - 1984)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel If God had made a perfect world, it would be a magic trick, not creation, with no meaning or place for us to learn and create. Mankind is not yet ready for a perfect world. We do not know how to appreciate perfection.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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