Quotes about mean
mean roots culture
I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music. John Lydon
mean thinking people
Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.
mean given worn
The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living. John Locke
mean men thinking
Brutes abstract not. -- If it may be doubted, whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas, that way, to any degree; this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to.
mean fighting want
Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
mean thinking people
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
mean past ohio
In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. John Lewis
mean circles america
Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America? You know, America has poured billions into places like that. It doesn't mean a damn thing. After they've eaten that meal, then what? It lasts for only a day. After the $200,000,000 is gone, then what? It goes round and round in circles. You can pour money in forever. After Peru, then Harlem, then Britain. There is no one concert. We would have to dedicate the rest of our lives to one world concert tour, and I'm not ready for it. Not in this lifetime, anyway. John Lennon
mean water get-real
There's high, and then there's high, and to get really high--I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high--that's where I'm goin'
mean being-in-love rocks
When you're in love, when somebody says something like, "How can you be with that woman?" you say, "What do you mean? I am with this goddess of love, the fulfillment of my whole life. Why are you saying this? Why do you want to throw a rock at her or punish me for being in love with her?
mean doe shots
What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that.
mean people drug
The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
mean night hands
I'm even afraid to lay down with you at night, because when you go to bed at night, mean woman, you got an ice pick in your hand. John Lee Hooker
mean guitar-music play
I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.
mean unique thinking
You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with genius ideas out of nowhere. Nothing could be farther from the truth. John Lasseter
mean men views
A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers man an end in himself and not an instrument whereby something is to be wrought. Its ideal is human perfection. John Lancaster Spalding
mean love-means betray
Love means having something to betray. John le Carre
mean messages storytelling
I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.
mean government ruthless
I mean, you can't be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government's policy is benevolent, can you now?
mean thinking doing-me
I don't think I have ever worked in my life, because work to me means that you are really doing something that you don't like. John Kluge
mean land dubious
Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living. John Kufuor
mean space people
In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration. John L. Phillips
mean writing self
Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the reader meets the authoritative, perfected self; in life, the writer is lumbered with the uncertain, imperfect one. John Lahr
mean world way
These days I must take the world in small and carefully measured doses. It is a sort of homeopathic cure I am undergoing, though I am not certain what this cure is meant to mend. Perhaps I am learning to live amongst the living again. Practising, I mean. But no, that is not it. Being here is just a way of not being anywhere. John Banville
mean kids passion
Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation. Jody Watley
mean rockets doe
Every Iraqi would I know would rather have Saddam back... I mean like... that does not even take rocket science. Jodie Evans
mean eye boys
Boys are easy. I mean, there are just a lot of bruises when they're young. With boys, you get a lot of accidental jabs in the eye and stepping on your feet, and those tantrums they cause when they don't want to leave the toy store. Jodie Foster
mean want
I want to change the system from within the system. And that means focusing and specializing.
mean ghetto feet
It's important for me to go back into the ghetto, where I'm from. I still get my oxygen from there. I don't live in the ghetto but every time I go back, I'm seeing the same things that I lived. That's one of the things I mean when I say, "My feet back onto the ground." Jimmy Cliff
mean together hindsight
In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me.
mean wind sea
Rastafari means to live in nature, to see the Creator in the wind, sea and storm. Other religions pointed to the sky, and while we were looking in the sky, they dug up all the gold and diamonds and went away with them
mean voice people
When it comes to stand-up, people feel this need to voice their objection through groaning or being offended. It's really irritating... I mean I love what I do, but that's the irritating side of it. Jim Norton
mean gold portfolios
Gold is no longer an investment. Gold is no longer a portfolio item. Gold is certainly not a trading vehicle. Gold is your lifeline and I mean that literally. Jim Sinclair