Mean Quotes - Page 6

• Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Years, Wonderful, Tradition

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• I still enjoy traveling a lot. I mean, it amazes me that I still get excited in hotel rooms just to see what kind of shampoo they've left me.

  Bill Bryson

  Rooms, Kind, Excited

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• If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be by revolutionary means

  Walter Rodney

  Humanity, Revolutionary, Prove

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• Loving your child also means respecting him as a person. Treat him with the same courtesy as would a friend.

  Claudia Jones

  Children, Loving You, Courtesy

  Claudia Jones (1988). “Parents are Teachers, Too: Enriching Your Child's First Six Years”, Williamson Pub

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• So many means of self-destruction, so little time.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Self, Littles, Destruction

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• All kinds of mysterious phenomena exist in this world, but answers to most of them have come with advances in scientific knowledge. Love is the sole holdout-nothing can explain it. A Chinese writer by the name of Ah Cheng wrote that love is just a chemical reaction, an unconventional point of view that seemed quite fresh at the time. But if love can be controlled and initiated by means of chemistry, then novelists would be out of a job. So while he may have had his finger on the truth, I'll remain a member of the loyal opposition.

  Mo Yan

  Jobs, Love Is, Names

  Mo Yan (2013). “Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out: A Novel”, p.597, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy.

  Park Geun-hye

  Democracy, Doe, Ends

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• Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.

  Adrienne Rich

  Fall, Responsibility, Funny Graduation

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• We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and yell and get very little accomplished, but you can disagree very much with the next guy and still be friends and acquaintances.

  Leah Ward Sears

  Country, Technology, Guy

  "Georgia High Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. August 2, 2005.

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• But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.

  Daniel Harvey Hill

  Soldier, Admiration, Aeroplanes

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• I mean, I try to say the right things and give the right advice. But still, I'm only a person.

  Jonathan Brandis

  Giving, Advice, Trying

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• Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.

  Patricia Ireland

  Advice, Rubber, Doe

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• By all means, fire the customers who aren't worth the time and the trouble. But understand that the moment you insist the customer is wrong, you've just started the firing process.

  Seth Godin

  Fire, Marketing, Advertising

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• The pace of change means that relationship is more important than ever before.

  Dave McLaughlin

  Marketing, Important, Pace

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• Twitter is like hugging. Just because it's hard to measure the return on investment doesn't mean there isn't value there.

  Tony Hsieh

  Hug, Marketing, Return

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• Spending energy to understand the audience and carefully crafting a message that resonates with them means making a commitment of time and discipline to the process.

  Nancy Duarte

  Commitment, Discipline, Marketing

  Nancy Duarte (2013). “Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences”, p.8, John Wiley & Sons

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• Make your "yes" mean yes, and your "no" mean no.

  John Wooden

  Mean Girls, Apathy

  Andrew Hill, John Wooden (2002). “Be Quick - But Don't Hurry: Finding Success in the Teachings of a Lifetime”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!

  Emanuel Ax

  Likes, Should, Applause

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• That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.

  Bainbridge Colby

  Appreciate, Criticism, Doe

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• I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

  Agnetha Faltskog

  Appreciate, Approval, Flattery

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.

  Jalal Talabani

  Determination, Self, Independence

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• Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.

  Leon Kass

  Men, Sexuality, Mortality

  Amy A. Kass, Leon Kass (2000). “Wing to wing, oar to oar: readings on courting and marrying”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• I think everybody's always attracted to both sexes. I mean, I think that women are very attractive. I've kissed girls, but everybody experiments. It's part of growing up.

  Monica Keena

  Mean Girls, Sex, Growing Up

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• And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, Responsibility, Males

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• There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so that's why for them losing power means losing their fortunes.

  Garry Kasparov

  People, Facts, Losing

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