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Image of Jay Leno
I always tell new people in show business. I say, "Look, show business pays you a lot of money, because eventually you're gonna get screwed. And when you get screwed, you will have this pile of money off to the side already." And they go, "OK, OK. OK, you ready? You ready?" "I got screwed." "You got the pile of money?" "Yeah, I'm fine." I mean, that's the way it works.
- Jay Leno
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Image of Stephen King
Why does everyone think that I am a cruel and insensitive man? I mean, come on, I have kids... on my desk in little jars!
- Stephen King
Collection: Mean
Image of Lewis H. Lapham
Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.
- Lewis H. Lapham
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Image of Martin Luther King, Jr.
I choose to identify with the underprivileged, I choose to give my life for the hungry, I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity . . . this is the way I'm going. If it means suffering, I'm going that way. If it means dying for them, I'm going that way, because I heard a voice saying DO SOMETHING FOR OTHERS.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image of Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind... The time is always right to do the right thing. Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image of Sophie Kinsella
Ok. don't panic. Don't panic. It's only a VISA bill. It's a piece of paper; a few numbers. I mean, just how scary can a few numbers be?
- Sophie Kinsella
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Image of Dalai Lama
Religion does not mean just precepts, a temple, monastery, or other external signs, for these as well as hearing and thinking are subsidiary factors in taming the mind.
- Dalai Lama
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Image of Timothy Leary
Monotheism is the primitive religion which centers human consciousness on Hive Authority. There is One God and His Name is _______ (substitute Hive-Label). If there is only One God then there is no choice, no option, no selection of reality. There is only Submission or Heresy. The word Islam means "submission". The basic posture of Christianity is kneeling. Thy will be done.
- Timothy Leary
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Image of David Levithan
We were painting by numbers, starting with the greens. Because that happened to be our favorite color. And this, we figured, had to mean something.
- David Levithan
Collection: Mean
Image of James A. Baldwin
Americans should never come to Europe,' she said, and tried to laugh and began to cry, 'it means they never can be happy again. What's the good of an American who isn't happy? Happiness was all we had.
- James A. Baldwin
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Image of James A. Baldwin
There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that *they* must accept *you*. The really terrible thing, old buddy, is that you must accept them. And I mean that very seriously. You must accept them and accept them with love.
- James A. Baldwin
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Image of James A. Baldwin
There is no way of conveying to the corpse the reasons you have made him one--you have the corpse, and you are, thereafter, at themercy of a fact which missed the truth, which means that the corpse has you.
- James A. Baldwin
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Image of Heidi Klum
Just because people say no to you, doesn't mean you should say no to yourself.
- Heidi Klum
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Image of Rush Limbaugh
Why do you people want to continue to import people that are going to end up placing a burden on our population? Why? If we're going to have an immigration policy, why don't we seek the best? Why do you people purposely want to go out and bring people in who are gonna end up being a burden? Now, you can define that as not learning English, not being able to have a job, being on the social safety welfare net, however you want to define it. But that's what Donald Trump means, because that's precisely what the Democrats want to do.
- Rush Limbaugh
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Image of C. S. Lewis
My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in a dung-hill, so old age and discretion are to be respected even in the vile persons of our subjects. Desist therefore, and tell us what you desire and propose.
- C. S. Lewis
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Image of Karl Kraus
Parliamentarianism means putting political prostitution in barracks.
- Karl Kraus
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Image of C. S. Lewis
Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?
- C. S. Lewis
Collection: Mean
Image of Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image of David Levithan
And I find myself saying, “It wasn’t really about her.” And finding it’s true. What do you mean?” Norah asks. It was about the feeling, you know? She caused it in me, but it wasn’t about her. It was about my reaction, what I wanted to feel and then convinced myself that I felt, because I wanted it that bad. That illusion. It was love because I created it as love.
- David Levithan
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Image of Rush Limbaugh
The possibility of impeachment's always there, but impeachment's a political thing, not legal, despite how it's structured. And it's not gonna happen unless there's a political will for it, and by that I mean political will among the people.
- Rush Limbaugh
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Image of Nicole Krauss
The fact that you got a little happier today doesn't change the fact that you also became a little sadder. Every day you become a little more of both, which means that right now, at this exact moment, you're the happiest and saddest you've ever been in your whole life.
- Nicole Krauss
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Image of Nicole Krauss
I'm not immune to the readers' desires. Sometimes they are my own, because I'm a reader, too. The readers' desire to know what really happened and what didn't. To have a glimpse into what's really the author and what isn't. I think we all have that and I wonder about what it means.
- Nicole Krauss
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Image of Jon Krakauer
As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane-as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout-there may be no more potent force than religion.
- Jon Krakauer
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Image of Jon Krakauer
It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty.
- Jon Krakauer
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Image of Jon Krakauer
I mean, how can you not be a feminist if you have a brain in your head? If you’re not a feminist, then you’re a problem.
- Jon Krakauer
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Image of Henry Adams
Society' in America means all the honest, kindly-mannered, pleasant- voiced women, and all the good, brave, unassuming men, between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Each of these has a free pass in every city and village, 'good for this generation only,' and it depends on each to make use of this pass or not as it may happen to suit his or her fancy.
- Henry Adams
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Image of Chuck Klosterman
To me, fear of the future means fear of technology. I have a little bit of that. I still use it, but I kind of see technology as this harmful thing that's so ingrained in my life that it sort of dictates and controls my relationship with it.
- Chuck Klosterman
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Image of Rush Limbaugh
[L]ook at it from Vicente Fox's point of view. I mean if - if you had a renegade, potential criminal element that was poor and unwilling to work, and you had a chance to get rid of 500,000 every year, would you do it?
- Rush Limbaugh
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Image of Dov Davidoff
Being anti-social can also mean that you're aware of how annoying it is to be social.
- Dov Davidoff
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Image of Florence King
Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor with one's oppressor.
- Florence King
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Image of Alphonsus Liguori
Perfect love of God means the complete union of our will with God's.
- Alphonsus Liguori
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Image of Alphonsus Liguori
The means for maintaining perfect love is to accomplish frequent acts of love. Fire is kindled by the wood we cast into it and love is enkindled by acts of love.
- Alphonsus Liguori
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Image of Rush Limbaugh
The fact that we're spending $700 billion a year on oil is actually a good thing; it means we have the prosperity to do it. It means that oil's being used, and oil is the fuel for the engine of freedom.
- Rush Limbaugh
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Image of Ti West
If you ever see the director pulling people aside, that means something's not working. Because you're trying to figure out why it's not working. But we would show up, we would talk about it.
- Ti West
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Image of Rush Limbaugh
This is [Joe] Biden's unique way. I mean, here's a guy that never makes a gaffe, right?
- Rush Limbaugh
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Image of Rush Limbaugh
I don't want anybody to be under a misunderstanding. Donald Trump never even said the word "assassination." That was the word used by Hillary Clinton in 2008, which CNN is calling a gaffe. (impression) "But Trump meant it! Yeah, Trump, he meant it." With Hillary, "It was a gaffe! We all know Hillary Clinton, and we all know Hillary Clinton didn't really mean what she said." Yeah, right. Double standards.
- Rush Limbaugh
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Image of Paul Krugman
Every once in a while I feel despair over the fate of the planet. If you’ve been following climate science, you know what I mean: the sense that we’re hurtling toward catastrophe but nobody wants to hear about it or do anything to avert it.
- Paul Krugman
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Image of Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image of Philip Larkin
A writer can have only one language, if language is going to mean anything to him.
- Philip Larkin
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Image of Astra Taylor
Are we on the tail-end of a generation that is enamored with the novelty of these devices and will younger people coming of age be more blasé about them in a healthy way? You look back at the history of any medium and the people who were there when it was developing, whether it was the telegraph or cable television or radio, thought, This is amazing, it's going change everything, or, The human community will finally be able to recognize each other and speak and be one - I mean, some people thought the telegraph or television would usher in world peace.
- Astra Taylor
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Image of John Lithgow
I think there are all sorts of ways of turning into an actor, and there are a vast variety of different actors. You know, you interview plenty of actors and you know they come at it from a different direction and acting means different things to a lot of people.
- John Lithgow
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Image of Dalai Lama
Self-rule means that China must stop its intensive effort to colonize Tibet with Chinese settlers and must allow Tibetans to hold responsible positions in the government of Tibet.
- Dalai Lama
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Image of David Levithan
Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty - with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.
- David Levithan
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Image of David Levithan
I have already spent roughly five thousand hours asleep next to you. This has to mean something.
- David Levithan
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Image of Bruce Lee
Sincere thought means thought of concentration (quiet awareness). The thought of a distracted mind cannot be sincere
- Bruce Lee
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Image of Sophie Kinsella
Whoever it was, whether I knew them or not, if I could help in some way, I would. I mean, if you can help, you have to help. Don't you think? - Poppy Wyatt
- Sophie Kinsella
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Image of Jay Leno
American Taliban John Walker Lindh has pleaded guilty to two counts of terrorism and will face twenty years in prison. I guess that means his jihad is on ji-hold.
- Jay Leno
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Image of Jiddu Krishnamurti
My contention is that it is impossible to limit Truth, for that would mean that you were stepping down the Truth to the individual, who is limited. It would be useless to lay down a crystallized method for everyone to follow.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Image of Max Lerner
If you mean by capitalism the God-given right of a few big corporations to make all the decisions that will affect millions of workers and consumers and to exclude everyone else from discussing and examining those decisions, then the unions are threatening capitalism.
- Max Lerner
Collection: Mean