Meaningless Quotes - Page 9

• I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist worth a damn in this country was terribly opposed to that war, finally, when it became evident what a fiasco and meaningless butchery it was.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Country, War, Artist

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

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• The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.

  Salvador Dali

  Mean, Doe, Facts

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• Politics has become a game of meaningless, mindless battles, conducted by unscrupulous methods and people, designed to transform even the most serious policy debates into sport.

  Al Gore

  Sports, Games, People

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• Hollywood is definitely now embracing a more natural approach to beauty. Staying "youthful-looking" is old news. The ubiquitous term "anti-aging" has become meaningless. Women today want to look like a more revitalized version of themselves. The bottom line is we all want to be natural. I am seeing an increasing number of people who want to match the products they use every day to a more natural, healthy lifestyle.

  Sophie Heyman Uliano

  Numbers, People, Healthy

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• And when you see artists like Donald Judd and so forth being referred to as conceptual, what the hell does that mean? It's a totally meaningless term.

  Robert Barry

  Mean, Artist, Doe

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Avant-garde, jazz, pop, classical, country and western, rock, free, straight-ahead, etc. are ultimately meaningless terms in the face of the music being discussed at best - at worst, those terms often serve as code words for what is in fact a cultural / political discussion more than a musical one.

  Pat Metheny

  Country, Rocks, Political

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• Fascism is meaningless because it's so completely indefinable, so where does the 'anti' come into the equation?

  Penny Rimbaud

  Doe, Fascism, Equations

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

  Octavio Paz

  Expression, History, Silence

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.172, Arcade Publishing

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• The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.

  Steven Morrissey

  Fire, Essentials, Fame

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• The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair.

  Steven Morrissey

  Mean, Thinking, Hair

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• So-called 'sustainable development' is meaningless drivel.

  James Lovelock

  Development, Drivel, Sustainable Development

  "James Lovelock on shale gas and the problem with 'greens'". Interview with Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2012.

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• Words divorced from action supporting them are meaningless and hypocritical.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Action, Hypocritical, Divorced

  "Playboy Interview: Madalyn Murray". Playboy Magazine, October, 1965.

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• We are going to die, as is everyone we adore - I hate this! But the question is, how do we live as women and men in the face of this? Why do we let ourselves be so distracted and obsessed by meaningless B.S. in light of having one short, precious life? When are we going to wake up and be fully alive to each other and nature and magic and wonder and Life with a capital L? When will we stop hitting the snooze button? And then, how alive are we willing to be?

  Anne Lamott

  Hate, Men, Light

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• It's easy, at this point in my life, very easy to write a beautiful sentence that's meaningless. A lot of writers do that. But I don't want it to be meaningless. I want it to actually say what I want it to say, and so I'm thinking about it again and again and again.

  Lynne Tillman

  Beautiful, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In the theater you can chain a blue-assed baboon in the stalls and with a good script, good actors, and a good set you'd have what is called a production. With the cinema someone has to know about lenses and fine things. I have no time for the "auteur de cinema." To me, it's meaningless.

  Peter O'Toole

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think creativity is something that best happens when you have clear parameters. If you're not confined by anything then it's meaningless. You've got to rap over the beat, or you've got to color within your canvas. You pick the canvas size first. That makes most sense to me.

  Riz Ahmed

  Rap, Creativity, Thinking

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• If we were immortal, then life would be meaningless, because nothing would be of consequence. Certainly one way of taking the edge off the prospect of our inevitable demise is to ponder how much more horrendous it would be if we persisted in perpetuity. And yet, if you told me I had X number of days left to live, I would lobby for X plus one.

  Sheldon Solomon

  Pondering, Inevitable, Immortal

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The editorial board, who endorses candidates, is totally separate from the news side of the business. We don't consult one another. They have one job to do, we have a totally different one to do. So whether the Washington Post editorial board endorses Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton is meaningless to me.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Different, Clinton

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• We believe in traditional values because without them, without the belief in an all-powerful God, then the very founding of our country was meaningless. It was founded on the principles that our rights come from God. If there is no God, then where do your rights come from other than what your leaders decide they are?

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Believe, Leader

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I do think things like old furniture and art are arbitrarily assigned. And I say that coming from an uneducated place in terms of, you know... art... curating. But who's to say what's valuable and what's not? I guess I feel like in the end it's all pretty meaningless 'cause we're all going to die.

  Nicole Holofcener

  Art, Thinking, Term

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was a soul singer first and I'd write love songs. I find with soul music it's really hard to write about anything else. But I was 15 at the time when I was doing that and, to be honest, I'd never experienced love, so the words were kind of meaningless. With hip-hop music, it allowed me to talk about political and social things but also to tell stories.

  Ben Drew

  Song, Writing, Political

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It's a beautiful idea to focus on how everything is temporary and always in flux. It may feel bad now, but it will feel good later, and vice versa. To write about those things brings this satisfying feeling as a creative person. There's a lot of music out there that's like, "I'm so mad! I'm sad! I'm into skulls and crossbones and the color black," and that's just meaningless and shallow. So much of metal is about that and it's hard to find metal that is substantial and meaningful in terms of its content.

  Phil Elvrum

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's hard for me to say you have to accept that the world is meaningless and the landscape is there before and after. That's not something we learn much in our culture growing up.

  Ramin Bahrani

  Growing Up, Culture, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A lot of stuff is dark in a way, but unless you're really looking at a situation for what it actually is, it's hard to be hopeful - or meaningless to be hopeful about it unless it's actually based in a real possibility.

  Win Butler

  Real, Dark, Hopeful

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.

  John Polkinghorne

  Mean, Historical, Way

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