Meant To Be Quotes - Page 16

• Getting along with one and other isn't meant to be difficult.

  Sally Fitzgibbons

  Difficult, Getting Along

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I believe this all has to do with how I decide to perceive the experience. Pain is part of life and makes you who you are meant to be. I just let it flow through me, at whatever rate it decides to do so. Then I go to the hockey rink and hit a few slap shots.

  Tohoru Masamune

  Pain, Believe, Hockey

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• The kinds of claims I make about knowledge are thus meant to be illustrative of a general argumentative strategy which might well bear fruit in areas of philosophy which I have not thus far explored.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Philosophy, Fruit, Bears

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I think that when people download the record they're kind of missing out on part of the experience, because it's really meant to be an immersive experience.

  Zachary Cole Smith

  Thinking, People, Missing

  "Interview: DIIV On Their Sophomore Album, 'Is The Is Are'". Interview with Rose Riddell, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

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• It [9/11 event] was aimed at symbols: the World Trade Center, the heart of American capitalism, and the Pentagon, the headquarters of the American military establishment. But it was not meant to be argued with. It wasn't part of any negotiation. No message was intended with it. It spoke for itself, which is unusual.

  Edward Said

  Military, Heart, World

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• When you don't get a role, it wasn't meant to be.

  Erica Schroeder

  Roles

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Artists freeze themselves into these weird postures that are meant to be impressive and involving, then they fling them out into the world like Polaroids, and then they move on. And I'm stuck in this intense relationship to the Polaroid.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Moving, Artist, World

  "Fear of Music". Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. May 29, 2012.

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• Some people are saying that my music is not for Burberry, it's not for fashion. I know where they're trying to go but if you're saying my music is only for deprived and sad people, then you're not helping me and you're not helping yourself. It's meant to be for everyone.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Fashion, People, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Even if someone thinks there's a mistake I've made on the piano, to me it's not a mistake; it's how it's meant to be.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Mistake, Thinking, Piano

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I had all this anxiety about what it meant to be a minority. My professors - the same men who taught me the intricacies of language - just shied away from the issue. They didn't want to talk about it, other than to suggest I could be a "role model" to other Hispanics - when I went back to my barrio, I suppose.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Men, Issues, Role Models

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• All I kept thinking about was, "Man, he's so relaxed onstage! I'm never going to be that relaxed! I'm clearly not meant to be in front of the camera. I'm really not meant for anything but behind the camera."

  Cary Fukunaga

  Men, Thinking, Cameras

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• And there's wordplay and there's rhythms and you have to be able to get the poetry out of it. You have to be able to sell my jokes. And if you're talking about somebody like Sam Jackson, they do that. Sam Jackson can do that. Sam Jackson can turn it into the spoken word that it was always meant to be and he can sell my jokes. And Christopher Walken can do it and a lot of people can do it, all right.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Talking, People, Able

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• DJ Spooky was meant to be a kind of ironic take on that. It was always meant to be kind of a criticism and critique of how downtown culture would separate genres and styles because it was ambiguous.

  DJ Spooky

  Ironic, Style, Criticism

  Source: bigthink.com

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• This may shock you, but the most important person in your life is you. You are meant to be 'full of yourself.

  Alexandra Stoddard

  Healing, Important, May

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• Respectfully, 'Awkward Black Girl' was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance.

  Issa Rae

  Fun, Ignorance, Black

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

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• The original Greek word for enthusiasm meant "to be filled with God." When we are "filled with God" we tend to lead on purpose.

  Richard Leider

  Greek, Purpose, Enthusiasm

  Richard J. Leider (2008). “The Power of Purpose: Creating Meaning in Your Life and Work: Easyread Edition”, p.107, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Shannon and all of us started the band so it just felt really natural, and then she quit, and then she came back, and then she quit again. I love working with her and would do it again, but that's just not in the cards. And Josh is a great person to play with - he can play any instrument. He's really inspiring and positive. It was great. It was meant to be temporary.

  Theresa Wayman

  Play, Cards, Band

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• I recognize that memory is far from infallible though. If I feel like I can't accurately describe something, I just leave it out. I also do things like write "he talked about ..." instead of writing direct quotes. But generally I feel like since my stories are very obviously meant to be my perception of an event rather than the objective truth this gives me a lot of leeway.

  Marie Calloway

  Memories, Writing, Giving

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We don't have a particular plan. We just do what we do. This is the only way we know how to do it. We make the music that moves us. We use it as therapy. The songs are cathartic. They're ways of dealing with life experiences and the world around you. It's meant to be as a release for us as it is for other people.

  David Draiman

  Song, Moving, People

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• The way I deliver it is meant to be fun. Does it hurt sometimes? Yes, but it is meant to be funny not offensive.

  Michelle Visage

  Hurt, Fun, Doe

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• In a strange way the spiritual life isn't "useful" or "successful." But it is meant to be fruitful. And fruitfulness comes out of brokenness.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Successful, Way

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• Be someone who lives with joy, with purpose, as your own light brightly shines. Be, in every moment, the special someone you are truly meant to be.

  Ralph Marston

  Light, Shining, Joy

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• When I'm meant to be standing in the wings, the only way to go is the ladies' toilets. It's the only time I've ever acted in the toilets.

  Patrick Stewart

  Wings, Toilets, Way

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• Deep down within all of us is a longing to work out what life is all about and what we're meant to be doing.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Work Out, Life Is, Longing

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• Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Desire, Pleasure, Satisfied

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