My favorite song is called 'Reachout.' There are so many different stories told in that song. I think anyone who listens to it will gather a different meaning, but each answer is true. I also like the sound of it, period - there are a lot of classical influences.
Wynter Gordon
SongThinkMeaningTrueWillSound
For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.
Kathryn Bigelow
PurposeMeaningKindBeyondSoldiers
I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I can't see a meaning in it at all.
Tony Judt
LifeChanceMy LifeMeaningBorn
God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.
Graham Greene
GodPossibilitiesMeaningEvolution
When you live in New York City, you run up a long list of things you've been meaning to do.
Willie Geist
LiveNew YorkCityMeaningLongYou
Separate inherently is not equal. There's a reason why $45 million was spent against marriage equality. It's because people understand the word does have meaning. And equality comes when we accept the same notions and the same institutions for everyone, regardless of race and gender and regardless of sex orientation.
Gavin Newsom
MarriageEqualityPeopleMeaningSex
I'm satisfied it's very black, meaning 'in the black'.
Robert Conrad
BlackMeaningSatisfiedVery
Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the meaning/rationale too well, which means that the reader will also know it - and so things have to be ramped up.
George Saunders
StoryMeaningEarlyKnowWillWrite
Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.
Philip Pullman
MeaningEverythingOnlyReadCould
'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
Frank Lloyd Wright
SimpleThinkMeaningBackSayFirst
For a lot of white people, just suggesting that being white has meaning will trigger a deep, defensive response. And that defensiveness serves to maintain both our comfort and our positions in a racially inequitable society from which we benefit.
Robin DiAngelo
PeopleSocietyDeepMeaningComfort
I'm a full-contact actor, meaning that I love to act in my toes and in my fingers, and I just try to keep it surprising.
Eric Stonestreet
LoveMeaningActorTryActFingers
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
Pope Paul VI
LifeWorkArtValueMeMeaning
You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.
Carlos Slim
PeopleRichMeaningYouCreateTax
It's technically extremely difficult to get down what you really mean, not what you think you mean, or what you think sounds good, but what's really there, what you really have to express, in words that somehow convey that meaning in an approximate way.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
GoodWordsThinkMeaningYouDown
Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.
Frederick William Robertson
LifeManThinkingMeaningEarthTwo
There's something about uninterrupted singing that just doesn't work for me, because at some point, I need my characters to talk. Without meaning to offend anyone, a musical like 'Les Miserables' would be the last thing I'd ever be interested in.
Pedro Almodovar
WorkMeSingingMeaningTalkNeed
First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas.
Daniel Yergin
PeopleEnergyMeaningFindSecurity
There is a saying in Arabic meaning that every situation must be considered based on the realities on the ground. I can talk in some places freely, but not in others.
Rula Ghani
SayingMeaningSituationI CanTalk
If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N.A.A.C.P. would be in true crisis.
Eric Liu
PeopleStoryMeaningWhiteTrueHim
Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.
Paul Tsongas
FearMeaningYouWillDaysDepth
It would help if human experts agreed on the meaning of such basic terms as intelligence, consciousness, or awareness. They don't. It's hard to build something that's incompletely defined.
Edward M. Lerner
IntelligenceHelpMeaningBuildHard
According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.
Roy Blount, Jr.
MeaningBetweenScholarsWord
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
Epictetus
CommunicationSpeakLearnMeaning
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