Quotes About Meaning

I think - you know, I'm a guy that - I don't live on the earth just to walk it. I live on here to make a difference.

A priest once said to me, 'Think of a priest going to the altar as you walk out on the stage.' I would hate to think that anyone thought I was coming to preach. But art and music open up things that you can't put into words. It's about bringing joy when you go out there.

I don't like doing things without understanding the meaning. Once I walked out of a film event as I could not stand the insult they meted out to a Sanskrit verse.

The Christ path is the path I've walked all my life, so it's normal and natural. And I have no reason to abandon it because it leads to where I want to go.

I was known for a lot of dunks, but my first big dunk really came here in New York. I had some others back then, but my first major dunk came against the Knicks and Kenny 'Sky' Walker. So, you know, New York has a lot of meaning to me.

You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

I seriously think Bachchan is more Bengali than any one I know. He's a true Bengali dada. And I'm not saying that because he has a Bengali wife or has spent time in Kolkata. There's more of Rabindranath Tagore's legacy in him than anyone else.

The best part of my career has been the relationships with the fans and the kids.

If you want to reach any kind of poignancy or meaning a lot of times, coming from comedy is the best way to get there.

When I do my best work, the stories tend to be pretty emotionally-charged.

I wish other people could be happy in what they do. The world would be a better place.

I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'

At the end of my life, I just want to make sure I made a big difference in this world.

I'm a big fan of lyrics - lyrics are the thing that move me in certain ways.

I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst.

Music is such a big part of my life.

A big part of the reason that I make music is that I want to be a part of people's memories - you're there; you're present in someone's life.

'Why are we here?' 'What is our purpose? 'Is there an afterlife?' 'Is there a God?' 'Is it all about science?' Those are big questions, and usually, TV is a little scared to go there.

I do find that I tend to write about big questions. Why are we here? What are we doing? How do we relate to each other?

Birthdays, for me, are not really important. It is just like any other day.

I don't really have any interest in doing Donald Blake stories. Maybe it's just I don't know what to do with that sort of alter ego.

I'm very aware that just driving blindly towards money won't get me anything. I drive blindly towards making the world a better place.

Bob felt everything that happened around him, and he put that reality into his music. And those things are still happening, which is why his music endures. It is music that still has meaning in people's lives. And you can dance to it.

Look at Bob Dylan: his voice is not a great sound, but it gets the idea across... and that is what's really important.