The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Carl Jung
LifeMeaningWorthMoreWithout
The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.
Arthur Erickson
MeaningFeelingDarkEntertainment
When you repeat yourself so many times, even if you're speaking the truth, the repetition starts to feel false. Sometimes, you just feel like the words you're speaking, even if they once had meaning, have lost it. And that makes you feel kind of silly.
Paul Dano
TruthWordsYourselfMeaningYou
I enjoy the inventive ways in which language is manipulated to make meaning.
Amitava Kumar
LanguageMeaningEnjoyMakeWays
There is no quick fix for illegal immigration. But only when we achieve better control of our borders and better respect for our immigration laws can we give meaning to the discussion we need to have over reforming the numbers, categories, and procedures for legal immigration into the United States.
Jan C. Ting
RespectControlLegalBetterMeaning
But also, the guest workers program, it's quite often misused, meaning people could come in as part of a guest workers program and after two weeks in the fields, they'd run off to do every other kind of job that isn't covered by a guest workers program.
Dana Rohrabacher
JobPeopleMeaningKindRunWorkers
I was covering the Supreme Court when it decided Gideon v. Wainright, and the case has always had special meaning for me.
Anthony Lewis
MeMeaningSpecialAlwaysCourt
If anyone can make anything, anywhere. It fundamentally changes the meaning of business.
Neil Gershenfeld
BusinessMeaningChangesAnything
But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth.
Stephen Greenblatt
TruthStartMeaningKnowPleasure
Marriage is a unique cultural relationship that has a long-standing tradition and societal meaning, which should not be redefined by the courts.
James Lankford
MarriageRelationshipMeaningUnique
It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
Eddie Van Halen
MusicPeopleMeSingingMeaningYou
Mark Zuckerberg is a genius. Not in the Asperger's, autistic way depicted in the very fictional movie 'The Social' Network, the cognitive genius of exceptional ability. That's a modern definition that reduces the original meaning.
Antonio Garcia Martinez
GeniusMeaningWayAbilityModern
In French, there is an old expression, la patte, meaning the artist's touch, his personal style, his 'paw'. I wanted to get away from la patte and from all that retinal painting.
Marcel Duchamp
StylePaintingMeaningArtistTouch
People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't see themselves as storytellers.
Stefan Sagmeister
PeopleMeaningWriteSeeTellWho
I think structure is so deep in us. We put it in stories we tell our friends or in emails we write. We want it. It's how we create meaning.
Greta Gerwig
DeepThinkFriendsMeaningCreate
No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
Barbara De Angelis
LifeAgeMeaningYouUniqueMatter
I've been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do 'A Cook's Tour;' I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyone that I wasn't already.
Anthony Bourdain
MeBookMeaningNobodyQuantity
I love that people are still obsessively trying to understand and decode 'The Shining.' People want to find meaning in things that seemingly don't have meaning on the surface.
Lee Unkrich
LovePeopleMeaningTryingFind
Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.
Steven Pinker
LifeMeaningGoodnessMoralityMoral
It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.
Henry A. Wallace
PeopleMeaningDiscriminationCountry
The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye and disappears in its own brightness. Like a flame, whose meaning is light but whose centre is dark, it demands to be undefined.
Alice Oswald
SeaLightQualityEyeFlameMeaning
The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
HopeSeaGreatManBoatMeaning
If I don't have a meaning to what I am doing, I am not convinced to be a part of that activity.
Sidharth Malhotra
I AmDoingMeaningActivityPartAm
I must always try to do better because perfectionism, and the need to always have new goals and achieve them, is a state of mind that brings profound meaning to life.
Giorgio Armani
LifeGoalsMindBetterMeaningNew
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