Mean Quotes
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It's probably not going to lead to anything. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. If everyone who thought they might fail didn't even try, where would we be today?
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I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.
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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.
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It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
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Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
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Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know.
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I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.
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The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation or murder.
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I feel most people’s sexuality is enormously complicated. That’s what it means to be human. Wouldn’t it be great if we honored that complexity rather than turn it into gossip or ridicule? Wouldn’t it be great if we accepted sexual diversity, in ourselves and others, without condemning it?
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The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.
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Some of the more fatuous flag-waving Americans are in danger of forgetting that you can't extract gratitude as you would extract a tooth; that unless friendship is freely given, it means nothing and less than nothing.
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I didn't mean to turn you on.
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I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
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Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.
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Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
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I had a very loyal cult-like following, I feel. And I don't mean to complain about that.
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You never read Spider-Man? Accepting your true identity means understanding that you are a stranger to this world. A freak, ostracized by the very people you want to help.
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Father or stepfather – those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.
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What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.
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The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.
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We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.
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Language betrays, in order to mean.
