Will Oldham Quote: 'I don't think that word

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.

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Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.

Don Miguel Ruiz

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Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

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I think when you translate songs, you lose the real essence and the meaning.

Prince Royce

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Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.

Edmund Morgan

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Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.

Andy Rooney

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My personal style comes from jugaad, a Hindi word meaning doing more with less.

Leila Janah

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The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.

Herbert Read

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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

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I think there's a huge amount of magic on television, which is slightly vapid: there's no real meaning or message behind it; it is simply a trick.

Drummond Money-Coutts

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Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.

Willard Van Orman Quine

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It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

George Orwell

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I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning.

Ziggy Marley

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We believe democracy cannot be imposed from outside in any society. Democracy is the expression of a sovereign people.

Meles Zenawi

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Pirate ships were built for stealth and invisibility. They filed no manifests with any agency or government. When they went missing or sunk, nobody went looking for them. They simply disappeared into the ether.

Robert Kurson

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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.

Salvatore Quasimodo

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I've always been interested in invisible worlds, and I like to visit digital worlds, you know, any world that's imposed on us.

Leos Carax

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I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.

Stefanie Powers

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I think you can laugh the hardest when you get closest to something real.

Mimi Kennedy

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I think I was five when I had my real first go-kart.

Michael Schumacher

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