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• The most meaningful movies I can make are the ones where parents can share them with their children and children can look forward to sharing them with their parents, a ritual if you will, where they get to spend time together and the kids are smiling.

  Nicolas Cage

  Children, Kids, Parent

  "Nicolas Cage and Jay Baruchel's Magical Apprenticeship". Moviefone Interview, news1.capitalgrio.com. July 13, 2010.

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• I do not see how it's possible to have a "friends with benefits" lifestyle, because if the sex is great, it's going to naturally expand into a more meaningful relationship. Otherwise, it's just a booty call.

  Jenna Elfman

  Sex, Booty, Benefits

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• I believe a novel must first of all be a good story. My hope is that the spiritual message is woven in so well, is such a part of the fabric of the story and of the characters' lives, that it is subtle but meaningful. This is difficult to do well and is something I constantly endeavor to improve.

  Julie Klassen

  Spiritual, Believe, Character

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• I don't want to jump off the roof or jump for joy depending on my movie reviews, or whether it makes money. I think the larger, more meaningful things are family and the people you love.

  Ben Affleck

  Thinking, People, Joy

  Mirror interview, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2008.

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• You look up after many years and you find that a film has become a classic because it's meaningful to people and alive, decade after decade.

  Woody Allen

  Years, People, Looks

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• You have to look at every one of your songs and be able to identify with them in a meaningful way. You can hardly sing your songs unless you're in them. If you want to fake it, go ahead. Fake it if you want. But I'm not that kind of singer.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Fake, Singers

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• Self-development is the only thing that keeps a person from burning out. We all have many needs - the need for certainty, the need for variety, the need for significance, and the need for connection. But, ultimately, we must grow, and we must contribute in a meaningful way in order to feel fulfilled.

  Tony Robbins

  Self, Order, Connections

  Interview with Dr. Joe Blaes, www.dentaleconomics.com. February 1, 2000.

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• In this state of total consumerism-which is to say a state of helpless dependence on things and services and ideas and motives that we have forgotten how to provide ourselves-all meaningful contact between ourselves and the earth is broken. We do not understand the earth in terms either of what it offers us or of what it requires of us, and I think it is the rule that people inevitably destroy what they do not understand.

  Wendell Berry

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.85, Counterpoint

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• Everything in life that's meaningful takes effort - takes vitality. You have to work at it. And God helps them who help themselves...help you.

  Jack LaLanne

  Effort, Vitality, Helping

  Source: aliveeastbay.com

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• Hip hop is ever changing and has definitely entered a new era. Many fans have mixed feelings over the direction of rap as more and more artists are emerging with content that some would describe as less than meaningful.

  Eric Thomas

  Rap, Artist, Hip Hop

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• As people become multisensory, they begin to realize that their lives are meaningful, that there's a purpose to all of their experiences - to the people that they meet, to the challenges that they have, that nothing is random.

  Gary Zukav

  People, Challenges, Purpose

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• You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

  Donald Miller

  Beautiful, Running, Stories

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• My persona is most importantly just to communicate the material in a way that is most funny and meaningful in the moment. It's more like a character that's sculpted for whatever joke needs communicating at the moment.

  Bo Burnham

  Character, Way, Needs

  Source: mancunion.com

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• The things I'm saying in my records are always me. I write about things in my life that I'm experiencing. When you hear the personal meaningful records that aren't about partying, they stem from my life.

  Mike Stud

  Party, Writing, Records

  Source: www.artistdirect.com

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• I can't cuss and tell jokes the rest of my life. I gotta say something meaningful. I gotta give something back to a Creator who has given so much to me.

  Steve Harvey

  Giving, Given, Creator

  "FIRST-PERSON: Steve Harvey: 'gotta say something meaningful'". Interview with Phil Boatwright, www.bpnews.net. January 05, 2005.

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• I didn't know how story worked. So, when writing the screenplay, people introduced me to the science of it. And I'm grateful. I'll probably use that information for the rest of my career, in terms of writing novels or writing stories. And then, of course, to help me live a better story, a more meaningful story

  Donald Miller

  Grateful, Writing, Careers

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• I was a very driven person, wanting to help and to do good, hopefully to write and teach in a meaningful way - wanting to make change. And I discovered humbly that life was changing me.

  Mark Nepo

  Writing, Way, Helping

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• Godly people... nobly endure hard things. They know that their existence is meaningful and that they are destined for unlimited pleasure at the deepest level in heaven. Because they keenly feel that nothing now quite meets the standards of their longing souls, the quiet but deeply throbbing ache within them drives them not to compalint, but to anticipation and further yieldedness.

  Larry Crabb

  Godly, People, Joy

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• We have a generation of kids who may never see a bookshelf or never see books in houses. What are they going to think about books? How will books become meaningful in their lives except as yet another form of digitalized content? A book is not just digitalized content.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, Kids, Thinking

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• I mean, Lady Gaga is trying to be a freak or whatever but that quality of being very meaningly and heartfelt, but also having a sense of humor about it, bands don't do that anymore. Lady Gaga's songs are cheesy. The Beatles weren't cheesy. That's the hardest thing with music: to not be cheesy, but also be meaningful. That's the goal, I think.

  Mac DeMarco

  Song, Thinking, Goal

  Source: www.self-titledmag.com

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• Most of us will have more than one job in our working lives, which means we will have more than one opportunity to seek meaningful work at different stages of our own deepening humanity.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Jobs, Opportunity, Humanity

  Source: www.thehighcalling.org

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• It seems evident that the more profound, helpful, and meaningful way to protect people is to dismantle the morality code, and grant people the freedom to openly organize without legal risks - rather than attempting to legally regulate everything, which will always enact social exclusions at some level.

  Terre Thaemlitz

  People, Profound, Risk

  "How Japan's New Nightclub Laws Threaten to Decimate Their Club Culture". Interview with Jonny Coleman, pitchfork.com. September 10, 2015.

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• We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness meaningful for nations poisoned by the misery of this century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But tasks are called superhuman when men take a long time to complete them, that is all.

  Albert Camus

  Hope, Men, Justice

  Albert Camus (1967). “Lyrical and critical”, Hamish Hamilton Ltd

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• All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.

  Zig Ziglar

  Strong, Book, Character

  Source: www.centerforfaithandwork.com

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• I'd like to do something meaningful in the smallest ways, not just words or idiotic writing.

  Xavier Dolan

  Writing, Way, Idiotic

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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