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Image of Alan Keyes
Freedom does not mean doing what you can get away with, doing what you please. It means, instead, having the opportunity to do what you ought to do--for family, and for community, and for humanity as a whole.
- Alan Keyes
Collection: Mean
Image of Alan Keyes
The gun control mentality is ruthlessly absurd. It suggests that you pass a law which will bind law-abiding citizens — they won't have access to weapons. Now, we know that criminals, by definition, are people who don't obey laws. Therefore, you can pass all the laws that you want, they will still have access to these weapons, just as they have access to illegal drugs and other things right now. That means you end up with a situation in which the law-abiding folks can't defend themselves, and the crooks have all the guns.
- Alan Keyes
Collection: Mean
Image of Mo Mowlam
You're never terrified when you say what you mean - are you?
- Mo Mowlam
Collection: Mean
Image of Fergus McCann
You cannot change the minds of the mindless. But that doesn't mean you just admit that's the way we have to live.
- Fergus McCann
Collection: Mean
Image of Greg Iles
Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up.
- Greg Iles
Collection: Mean
Image of Ginger Baker
It happens to us quite often-it feels as though I'm not playing my instrument, something else is playing it and that same thing is playing all three of our instruments. That's what I mean when I say it's frightening sometimes. Maybe we'll all play the same phrase out of nowhere. It happens very often with us.
- Ginger Baker
Collection: Mean
Image of Steve Grand
It's really important for me to live purposefully, and I feel that way putting music out in the world and having people connect with it. That means everything to me.
- Steve Grand
Collection: Mean
Image of Randall Collins
Being a sociologist means never having to be bored
- Randall Collins
Collection: Mean
Image of Karyn Kusama
Women still routinely get passed over when everyone sits around the table and says, "What's our list of 10, 20, 30 directors that we wanna put at the top of our list for this project?" You need more people who are either women who care about this issue or men who care about this issue, who are sitting in this room and saying, "Guys, where are the women? We need to be going out to women." And particularly in the projects that really could use a fresh feminine perspective, whatever that ultimately means.
- Karyn Kusama
Collection: Mean
Image of Denis Johnson
Everybody’s got a mean side. Just don’t feed it till it grows.
- Denis Johnson
Collection: Mean
Image of John Maus
I have no idea what the hell is going on in the world, in my life, in what anything means, or what I'm supposed to do.
- John Maus
Collection: Mean
Image of Laetitia Pilkington
A third volume of Memoirs is really a bold undertaking ... I cannot, like a certain female writer, say, I hope if I have done nothing to please, I have done nothing to offend; for truly I mean to give both pleasure and offense.
- Laetitia Pilkington
Collection: Mean
Image of Mikhail Khodorkovsky
The structure of the company is constantly changing. The composition of the necessary working groups is constantly changing. We have many divisions that are based on the project principle, which means that they are put together for each project.
- Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Collection: Mean
Image of Imran Khan
I do not have any fears, no fear of dying, of failure, of anything; that means I am very dangerous for my opponents.
- Imran Khan
Collection: Mean
Image of Mike Royer
People ask me who my favorite inker is and I tell them my favorite inker was Joe Sinnott...but I was the best. Now I don't mean that as any kind of egotistical thing. It's just that I did what Jack wanted.
- Mike Royer
Collection: Mean
Image of Vijay Seshadri
We live in a trans period. Contemporary issues of sexuality, for example - the exciting aspects of them - have to do with transgenderedness. And there's trans-nationality. There are people like me, for example. I mean, what am I? Am I Indian? Am I American? And I'm not alone in being between things.
- Vijay Seshadri
Collection: Mean
Image of John Isner
I was never pegged to be the next great American tennis player by any means. I wasn't a prodigy. I'm a late bloomer. Whatever happens, I'm proud of what I've done.
- John Isner
Collection: Mean
Image of Saddam Hussein
If you want to control the world you need to control the oil. Therefore the destruction of Iraq is a prerequisite to controlling oil. That means the destruction of the Iraqi national identity, since the Iraqis are committed to their principles and rights according to international law and the U.N. charter.
- Saddam Hussein
Collection: Mean
Image of Brendan Benson
The movie industry places such importance on first-week numbers-which means what to people, I don't know. It's very strange. They hope to sell tons of records the first week, and then what?
- Brendan Benson
Collection: Mean
Image of Alex Mack
Being popular doesn't mean you're better than anyone else.
- Alex Mack
Collection: Mean
Image of Fukuzawa Yukichi
In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of virtue so as to elevate human life to a higher plane... It refers to the attainment of both material well-being and the elevation of the human spirit, [but] since what produces man's well-being and refinement is knowledge and virtue, civilization ultimately means the progress of man's knowledge and virtue.
- Fukuzawa Yukichi
Collection: Mean
Image of Sandy Skoglund
I think I am most fond of the unseen part. I mean that the various cultural experiences that I go through, and the behavioral aspects of getting the work done, are just as important as the installation and the photograph. So, for me, the relationship between the two is more about hybridism and the search for an ideal form that I'm never going to arrive at. The installation and the photograph are mere approximations of this ideal.
- Sandy Skoglund
Collection: Mean
Image of Beth Simone Noveck
To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do.
- Beth Simone Noveck
Collection: Mean
Image of Chris Reifert
That's what metal means to me, feeling that feeling when you hear something that totally turns you on.
- Chris Reifert
Collection: Mean
Image of Joshua Wong
I'm not scared, because I know that I need to face the trial. What I mean is, I already expect I will need to pay the price.
- Joshua Wong
Collection: Mean
Image of Whit Stillman
Mary McCarthy and that Mr. Intellectual kind of guy ... Dwight McDonald? And they were really mean about [Jerome David] Salinger, and oh they were going to destroy him, and just look how thoroughly they destroyed him! No one reads Salinger anymore!
- Whit Stillman
Collection: Mean
Image of Laura Huxley
Since I was young my wish has been to die in perfect health - I mean to die with a body that is not destroyed by illness but a body that is consumed by its own long burning fire.
- Laura Huxley
Collection: Mean
Image of Glenda Bailey
It's so difficult to even suggest to me that I can't always achieve what I want right now; sometimes that is the reality. Time has taught me to be patient and flexible and I have to realize that maybe it wasn't meant to be right now but that doesn't mean it can't be next month or next year. It's inevitable, you get there in the end.
- Glenda Bailey
Collection: Mean
Image of Jerry Lee Lewis
She didn't mean to be unkind, why she even woke me up to say good-bye.
- Jerry Lee Lewis
Collection: Mean
Image of Fran Lebowitz
If people don't hold grudges, it means they just don't care what people do.
- Fran Lebowitz
Collection: Mean
Image of Robert Barry
The words represent ideas first of all. That is something you have to understand. I mean, it is not just an object, but it is an object with a history and it is loaded with all kinds of implications and ideas. They exist in the world in a very special way. So they kind of represent some aspect of the world that we perceive, as do photographs, as do drawings of trees or whatever. And they are not a one to one. They are not the world, but they kind of refer to the world and they also exist in the world.
- Robert Barry
Collection: Mean
Image of Shimon Attie
Simply because something is not visible it doesn't mean that it is not there.
- Shimon Attie
Collection: Mean
Image of Iain Banks
Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.
- Iain Banks
Collection: Mean
Image of Jennifer Lawrence
I'm very, very thirsty for knowledge. Just because I'm good at something and have found success doesn't mean I'm done. I'm not even close to being done. I don't know if I ever will be done learning.
- Jennifer Lawrence
Collection: Mean
Image of Johanna Konta
I admire Serena Williams, because, I mean, who doesn't admire Serena Williams?
- Johanna Konta
Collection: Mean
Image of Alfred Korzybski
Words don't mean, people mean.
- Alfred Korzybski
Collection: Mean
Image of Mark Gordon
I'm very fortunate, and the movies that I've made, even from the very beginning, have been very eclectic. The thing for me is: Am I emotionally engaged in the idea? Is there something special about it? Does it capture my imagination? So everything that I do is simply something that turns me on. And I have the good fortune to be able to make bigger movies and television that ostensibly pay for the other ones. I don't mean literally finance the movies. But they allow me to work on things for very little pay. I do these things because I love them.
- Mark Gordon
Collection: Mean
Image of Amy Hill Hearth
Maybe freedom means defining yourself any way you want to be.
- Amy Hill Hearth
Collection: Mean
Image of Pat Steir
I consider my work non-objective and I think abstract is an abstraction of something, like a landscape. Abstraction means something is abstracted. It relates to something. Non-objective relates to nothing. It has no object.
- Pat Steir
Collection: Mean
Image of Sadie Calvano
Exercise and writing are so therapeutic to me. I try to write every day and I make it a huge priority to find time to work out, even if that means taking a spin class at 7am before work.
- Sadie Calvano
Collection: Mean
Image of Roger Bannister
Just because they say it's impossible doesn't mean you can't do it.
- Roger Bannister
Collection: Mean
Image of Melissa Holbrook Pierson
If we didn't love things, then we couldn't feel their loss. The flip side of loving is losing. I mean, you can't experience one without the other.
- Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Collection: Mean
Image of Patrick Leahy
Remember the attorney general is not a member of the president's staff. He's the attorney general of the United States. He's there to represent all of us, and it means all the laws have to be enforced fairly. And you can't bring your individual prejudices in there.
- Patrick Leahy
Collection: Mean
Image of Ben Kingsley
I love storytelling. If you strip all the bits away, what you'll find at the center is a storyteller. As I warm to my career and love it more, I have a sense that storytelling is healing, in many ways. You can reach an audience and heal, and by heal, I mean entertain and provoke. It's a wonderful life.
- Ben Kingsley
Collection: Mean
Image of Malcolm D. Lee
Half the audience gets where I'm coming from and half the audience is like, "Wait a minute. What does that mean?"
- Malcolm D. Lee
Collection: Mean
Image of Janina Gavankar
I'm a musician - music will never go away - but my focus is acting, and I started late so I have to play catch-up. So that means I have to work twice as hard in this game. But it will never stop, I think I always feel I have to work twice as hard.
- Janina Gavankar
Collection: Mean
Image of Jonathan Batiste
With the audience, I always say it's about giving the people an experience. And what the experience is about, it transcends just the music, and genre, and the venue. It's about the people coming together to share a profound and transformative moment. So that means the listener is actively engaged, and the listener is a part of the show, they're a part of the experience.
- Jonathan Batiste
Collection: Mean
Image of Charles Krauthammer
Increasing public safety almost always means restricting liberties.
- Charles Krauthammer
Collection: Mean
Image of John Dyer Baizley
I tend to over extend myself without really thinking throughthe realities of completing so many projects in a year, which generally means I'm going to be a little bit behind. I suppose that's the nature of the beast.
- John Dyer Baizley
Collection: Mean