Different Meanings Quotes - Page 2

• I do kind of transcend the song and give it a different meaning.

  Klaus Nomi

  Song, Giving, Different

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• People do accuse me of being just decorative or an escapist - well I am. That's what I do. I am other things as well. I transcend the song and give it a different meaning.

  Klaus Nomi

  Song, People, Giving

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• Marriages had different meanings back then than they do now, they were used to cement agreements between families, business deals and things like that. The idea of marriages being arranged for love is some sort of modern idea, really.

  Jared Harris

  Love Is, Ideas, Business Deals

  Source: collider.com

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• As for the meaning of gardens, particular gardens may have, of course, all sorts of different meanings - emotive, historical, emblematic, religious, commemorative, and so on. But I think that good gardens all signify or exemplify an important truth about the relationship of culture and nature - their inseparability.

  David E. Cooper

  Religious, Garden, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• If there are older black people in the audience that I can see I will not say the n-word. I know they grew up with a different meaning.

  Neal Brennan

  People, Black, Different

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• A text makes the word more specific. It really kind of defines it within the context in which it is being used. If it is just taken out of a context and presented as a sort of object, which is what - you know, which is a contemporary art idea, you know. It is like an old surrealist idea or an old cubist idea to take something out of context and put it in a completely different context. And it sort of gives it a different meaning and creates another world, another kind of world in which we enter.

  Robert Barry

  Art, Taken, Ideas

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Song, Different, Time Passes

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Singing 'Blowin' in the Wind' all the places we've been, it takes on a different meaning everywhere. When you sing the line, 'How many years can a people exist, before they're allowed to be free?' in a prison yard for political prisoners in El Salvador; if you have sung it to a group of union organizers, who have all been in jail, in South Korea; if you've sung to Jews in the Soviet Union who have been refused exit visas; if you've sung it with Bishop Tutu protesting apartheid, the song breathes, it lives, it has a contemporary currency.

  Mary Travers

  Song, Wind, Jail

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• I love films like Deliverance where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.

  Christopher McQuarrie

  Different, Watches, Deliverance

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• Each album comes from definitely a different period in the evolution of each of us individually as creators and the role that we take in life. The external stimuli changed... so the songs are full of lots of different meanings.

  Robert Plant

  Song, Different, Albums

  "New Again: Robert Plant". Interview With Emily McDermott, Mark Ginsburg, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 12, 2013.

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• Jesus' kingdom was not like the popular expectation. He used the phrase 'kingdom of God' with a different meaning. His kingdom was not of this world (John 18:36). It was not like the kingdoms of this world. It was the kingdom of God, a supernatural kingdom. It was invisible to most people (John 3:3)-it could not be understood or experienced without the Holy Spirit (v. 6). God is Spirit, and the kingdom of God is a spiritual kingdom.

  Tom Harpur

  Spiritual, Jesus, People

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• The song succeeds or fails just based on whether you argue your point successfully. I like throwing images together, which create meaning if you listen to it one time, but if you listen to it another time you might get a different meaning.

  Iron & Wine

  Song, Together, Different

  Interview with Joe Tangari, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2007.

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• I wanted to make a film about anorexia. I thought about it for a long time, but then gave up on this idea as I felt that this theme would be so hermetic and closed that it would not reach an audience. However, the plot about the character of Olga and the idea that a body has a lot of different meanings were still present in my mind.

  Malgorzata Szumowska

  Character, Ideas, Long

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• That’s what i love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff were your not sure what the poets talking about. You may have an idea, but you cant be sure. Not a hundred percent. Each word, specifically chosen, could have a million different meanings. Is it a stand-in ―a symbol for another idea? Does it fit into a larger, more hidden, metaphor? ...I hated poetry until someone showed me how to appreciate it. He told me to see poetry as a puzzle. Its up to the reader to decipher the code, or the words, based on everything they know about life and emotions.

  Jay Asher

  Talking, Ideas, Appreciate

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• A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

  Henri Bergson

  Independent, Two, Different

  Henri Bergson (2013). “Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic”, p.103, Courier Corporation

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• That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about. You may have an idea, but you can't be sure. Not a hundred percent. Each word, specifically chosen, could have a million different meanings.

  Jay Asher

  Talking, Ideas, Different

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.175, Penguin

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• When you lose someone, a whole lot of perfectly normal circumstances suddenly take on different meaning. You see it in a different light. You wonder if they knew. I wondered. Doctors have told me that people do have a sense of their own approaching death.

  Joan Didion

  Doctors, Light, Perfectly Normal

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• I'm a very message-oriented artist, and each song has a totally different meaning.

  Claudia Lee

  Song, Artist, Different

  "'Hart of Dixie' star Claudia Lee Dishes on the New Episodes and her Debut Album!". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. January 23, 2012.

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• One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different meanings - meanings which may in fact contradict each other.

  Edward Lucie-Smith

  Art, Different, May

  Edward Lucie-Smith (1980). “Art in the seventies”

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• Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Different, Certificates

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1912). “Some Mistakes of Moses”, p.77, Library of Alexandria

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