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Image of Donald Trump
There's some very good medias. And I have to say, Fox has treated me fairly. And I don't mean good, but they've treated me fairly. I don't want to be treated good. I just want to be treated fairly.
- Donald Trump
Collection: Mean
Image of Jeanette Winterson
Very often history is a means of denying the past.
- Jeanette Winterson
Collection: Mean
Image of Rick Riordan
Some risks are worth taking, even if it means losing a life.
- Rick Riordan
Collection: Mean
Image of Rick Riordan
Just curious how much I'm going for these days," Leo said. "I mean, I can understand not being as pricey as Percy or Jason, maybe...but am I worth, like, two Franks, or three Franks?
- Rick Riordan
Collection: Mean
Image of Rick Riordan
Tyson dropped the two warriors he was about to tie into a knot and jogged after us. He jumped on the centaur's back. 'Dude!' the centaur groaned, almost buckling under Tyson's weight. 'Do the words "low-carb diet" mean anything to you?
- Rick Riordan
Collection: Mean
Image of Rick Riordan
What are you thinking? Nothing. I mean...a lot of things. Kind of all at once.
- Rick Riordan
Collection: Mean
Image of Audrey Niffenegger
Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way other than just getting older.
- Audrey Niffenegger
Collection: Mean
Image of Ilchi Lee
Recalibration of the mind means clearing our perceptions and recovering our capacity for pure observation.
- Ilchi Lee
Collection: Mean
Image of Mark Twain
I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.
- Mark Twain
Collection: Mean
Image of Billy Bragg
You have to recognise your responsibility to your community for your actions. Liberty doesn't mean that you are not held accountable. Without accountability, there can be no freedom. I know it seems like a paradox.
- Billy Bragg
Collection: Mean
Image of Pablo Picasso
It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.
- Pablo Picasso
Collection: Mean
Image of Pablo Picasso
And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich.
- Pablo Picasso
Collection: Mean
Image of David Bowie
There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.
- David Bowie
Collection: Mean
Image of Daniel Radcliffe
Somebody I love and have a huge amount of respect for once told me something that, to this day, I don't really think I understand. It was probably toward the end of Harry Potter, and they were talking to me about afterwards and that kind of stuff. And they were saying, "You need to think of yourself as a brand and you need to protect that brand." I just don't understand what that really means in terms of being an actor, and I also think I would find that a slightly soul-destroying way to look at myself.
- Daniel Radcliffe
Collection: Mean
Image of Michael Sheen
With vampires, there is such a great tradition that you suddenly find yourself a part of. Each generation reinvents what that means to them.
- Michael Sheen
Collection: Mean
Image of David Brooks
Even in this nuclear thing, [ Donald Trump] says we should be stronger and expand. What does that mean? So, what is concrete in what he's saying?
- David Brooks
Collection: Mean
Image of Christy Turlington
For me, true beauty really does begin within and when it comes to skincare that means Imedeen.
- Christy Turlington
Collection: Mean
Image of David Mitchell
If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist. However, if happiness means the conquest of adversity or a sense of purpose, or the xercise of one’s will to power, then of all Nea So Copros’s slaves we surely are the most miserable.
- David Mitchell
Collection: Mean
Image of Alanis Morissette
Looking for approval or blaming others or feeling like a victim. Whenever I feel myself doing that I try to stop and see myself as someone who's a creator in more ways than just what the word typically means.
- Alanis Morissette
Collection: Mean
Image of J. R. R. Tolkien
It is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say too much. It robs us of the right words when a jest is out of place.
- J. R. R. Tolkien
Collection: Mean
Image of Michael Shermer
There are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the only. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades.
- Michael Shermer
Collection: Mean
Image of Keith Richards
The only new technology that interests me is when it sort of throws me back soundwise. And I can think, "Wow, that means I can go onstage and sound like Scotty Moore now and again!"
- Keith Richards
Collection: Mean
Image of Billy Bob Thornton
Television is making, there was in independent film renaissance late '80s through the mid-90's. It was an amazing time. Television is doing that right now. So that's why everybody wants to do it. I mean if you're writing stuff like, you know, Fargo, or True Detective, or any of these things that are on, Breaking Bad, there are no rules in television.
- Billy Bob Thornton
Collection: Mean
Image of Pope John Paul II
Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.
- Pope John Paul II
Collection: Mean
Image of Christopher Moore
Do we still have to floss?" Tommy asked. "I mean, what's the point of being immortal if we have to floss?
- Christopher Moore
Collection: Mean
Image of Tom Stoppard
The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it's trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people fancying people who aren't supposed to be in that part of the plan.
- Tom Stoppard
Collection: Mean
Image of Viswanathan Anand
When I started out playing chess as a kid I thought I should be world champion. As a kid you have no idea what that means and you only sort of picture it. It is hard to imagine that I waited all those years and it happened in a late stage of my career.
- Viswanathan Anand
Collection: Mean
Image of Veronica Roth
I am afraid of her, afraid of what she says-and thrilled by it too, because it means I don't have to accept that I am smaller than I once believed.
- Veronica Roth
Collection: Mean
Image of Carl Sagan
What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our technical civilisation is a few hundred years old ... an advanced civilisation millions of years old is as much beyond us as we are beyond a bushbaby or a macaque
- Carl Sagan
Collection: Mean
Image of Izaak Walton
Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice
- Izaak Walton
Collection: Mean
Image of Plutarch
If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it is a point to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
- Plutarch
Collection: Mean
Image of Jesse Ventura
How come life in prison doesn't mean life? Until it does, we're not ready to do away with the death penalty. Stop thinking in terms of "punishment" for a minute and think in terms of safeguarding innocent people from incorrigible murderers.
- Jesse Ventura
Collection: Mean
Image of Philip Pullman
If a coin comes down heads, that means that the possibility of its coming down tails has collapsed. Until that moment the two possibilities were equal. But on another world, it does come down tails. And when that happens, the two worlds split apart.
- Philip Pullman
Collection: Mean
Image of Andrei Tarkovsky
When less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further. The alternative is for the audience to be presented with a final deduction (...) no effort on their part. What can it mean to them when they have not shared with the author the misery and joy of bringing an image into being?
- Andrei Tarkovsky
Collection: Mean
Image of Ashleigh Brilliant
Vote wisely, even if that means not voting at all.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
Collection: Mean
Image of Eli Roth
I've always wanted to be involved in an exorcism movie. But I thought, "How do you make something scarier than The Exorcist?" The answer is you don't. But that doesn't mean you can't make something that is original and interesting.
- Eli Roth
Collection: Mean
Image of Daniel J. Boorstin
. . . the messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Collection: Mean
Image of Arundhati Roy
I can't be a part of the large convoy because it's not a choice that you can make. The fact that I'm an educated person means that I can't be on that convoy. I don't want to be on it. I don't want to be a victim. I don't want to disappear into the darkness.
- Arundhati Roy
Collection: Mean
Image of Andy Rooney
Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.
- Andy Rooney
Collection: Mean
Image of Thom Yorke
My only means of self defense is to wiggle my eye and feign being a salamander. It has saved my life but once I was partially eaten by a bald eagle who thought I was a salamander. Hence, my skills. Hence.
- Thom Yorke
Collection: Mean
Image of Garth Nix
I am not going to change who I am. I am human and I know how to love, and be kind, and be compassionate to those who are weaker than me. Just because I have power doesn't mean I have to use it!
- Garth Nix
Collection: Mean
Image of R. C. Sproul
If God is the Creator of the entire universe, then it must follow that He is the Lord of the whole universe. No part of the world is outside of His lordship. That means that no part of my life must be outside of His lordship.
- R. C. Sproul
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Image of Thomas S. Monson
I urge you to live within your means. One cannot spend more than one earns and remain solvent. I promise you that you will then be happier than you would be if you were constantly worrying about how to make the next payment on nonessential debt.
- Thomas S. Monson
Collection: Mean
Image of Catherynne M. Valente
When I say forever,' Koschei whispered, 'I mean until the black death of the world. An Ivan means just the present moment, the flickering light of it, in a green field, his mouth on yours. He means the stretching of that moment. But forever isn't bright; it isn't like that. Forever is cold and hard and final.
- Catherynne M. Valente
Collection: Mean
Image of Haile Selassie
Here is our opportunity and our challenge. If the nuclear powers are prepared to declare a truce, let us seize the moment to strengthen the institutions and procedures which will serve as the means for the pacific settlement of disputes among men.
- Haile Selassie
Collection: Mean
Image of John Waters
I like the word 'underground'... 'independent' carries a stigma of whininess. 'Underground' means a good time.
- John Waters
Collection: Mean
Image of John Waters
I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?
- John Waters
Collection: Mean
Image of Don Rickles
I take pride in being very unique in what I do. Nobody else can do what I do and I don't mean to say that egotistically, it's just something in my personality.
- Don Rickles
Collection: Mean
Image of Don Rickles
Frank Sinatra enjoyed my humor, so I could say almost anything to him. I mean, within reason.
- Don Rickles
Collection: Mean