EARLY in my teaching days, the kids asked me the meaning of a POEM. I replied, 'I don't know any more than you do. I have ideas. What are your ideas?' I REALIZED then that we're all in the same boat. What does anybody know?

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In both pop and DISCO, the meaning of the LYRICS is not too important. I have nothing I FEEL I particularly want to SAY.

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It is important that the audience should understand EVERY syllable of every word, for only then can they GRASP the meaning of the SONG.

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The SOLE MEANING of LIFE is to SERVE HUMANITY.

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We can think so MUCH about life and take ourselves so SERIOUSLY; I MEAN, I LIKE to tell people, 'Don't take life too seriously' because you'll cloud the experience. That's what the meaning of life is to me - being able to enjoy the MOMENT.

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The award is IMPORTANT in order to bring PEOPLE to the movie theater. That's the only PRINCIPLE MEANING of any award.

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I believe WORDS should amaze or AMUSE. Only then will the LISTENER want to understand the MEANING of the SONG.

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'Winnie The Witch' transgresses all CULTURAL boundaries. Amusingly, there have been attempts to deconstruct the MEANING of the books - that Winnie represents SOCIETY and Wilbur the DISABLED - but I think it's just a great STORY.

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My dad LIKES to recite the STORY of 'Pablo the Donkey' before dinner to teach us the real MEANING of Christmas. EVERY year, it's the same; every year, we cringe!

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I think - something I learned recently looking up the meaning of ideology. If you LOOK in American encyclopedias, it says, you know, 'Rules for - basic rules for a system of economics or politics.' If you look in the Oxford, it says that, and then it says... 'DESPITE - and PEOPLE will HOLD these propositions despite events.'

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In LOVE, we WORRY more about the MEANING of silences than the meaning of WORDS.

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If journalism is the FIRST draft of HISTORY, then TALK RADIO provides an EARLY glimpse into how the meaning of political events will be spun for ideological and partisan purposes.

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When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and NINETIES, I learnt the MEANING of PATIENCE. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of HUMILITY.

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MOTHER Teresa was asked what was the MEANING of LIFE, and she said to HELP other people, and I thought, 'What a STRANGE thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.

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I know it SOUNDS CORNY, but I THINK the MEANING of life is to do what you love and be HAPPY.

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