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“You know when I decided to become professional - that means to expose yourself naked to the world with the other creative minds - I said, 'I'm going into areas I don't know. I might just fall right down to hell and kill myself.”

Knows World Mind Mean Said Might Fall Hell Creative Areas Decided Profession Naked Creative Mind

Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“Failure feelings - fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence - do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the stars. They are not holy gospel. Nor are they intimations of a set and decided fate which means that failure is decreed and decided. They originate from your own mind.”

Mind Mean Self Feelings Stars Fate Written Holy Anxiety Spring Decided Self Confidence Heavenly Oracles Cybernetics Psycho Cybernetics Lack Of Self Confidence Written In The Stars

Book:Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded

Source: Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded

“When a ball goes into a net it only means something because we decided it means something. When somebody punches somebody in the face it always means something.”

Mean Faces Decided Balls Mma

Author:Joe Rogan

“I guess you have to be a little arrogant to be a writer. I decided early on that just because a lot of other writers were bothered by getting bad reviews didn't really mean that the things were particularly important. By the same token, the good ones didn't mean all that much either. So I just forget about reviews and I wrote what I wanted.”

Mean Littles Important Wanted Forget Decided Reviews Arrogant Bothered Really Mean Tokens Bad Reviews

Author:Roger Zelazny

“I don't really wanna think about themes. I wanna just think about the experience of the movie. I feel like, as soon as I reduce it to a theme, once I write that sentence, it won't be that great. I feel like there's more potential for it to mean something interesting if I'm not forcing it to mean something I've already decided.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Writing Mean Interesting Decided Sentences Theme Something Interesting

Author:Wes Anderson

“In A Brief History Of Time I used the word "God" like Einstein did as a shorthand for the laws of physics. However, this is not what most people mean by God, so I have decided not to use the term. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a God.”

People Needs Mean Use Law Used Universe Term Decided Physics Laws Of Physics Shorthand

Author:Stephen Hawking

“Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.”

Mean Art Fate Genius Decided Works Of Art

Author:Le Corbusier

“The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.”

Firsts Mean Term Enemy Battle Decided Ships Chiefs Boards Commanders Commander In Chief Horatio

Book:The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson

Source: The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson

“What does it mean to be a used white wife, a mother, a tragic girl writing poems? Sandra Simonds gets into these messy words and then tears them apart. Sometimes with the words of others. And sometimes with poems made from scratch. They aren't all bad, these words. But they aren't all good either. And that is where Mother was a Tragic Girl gets its power. You will at moments be laughing but then you will also at moments just as much be crying. If Antigone was alive and decided to write some poems about the nuclear family, she would write them like Sandra Simonds. These are tough.”

Ifs Writing Mean Doe Made Sometimes Moments Used Mother Girl White Laughing Alive Wife Cry Tears Tough Decided Nuclear Tragic Scratches Messy Antigone Writing Poems Nuclear Families

Author:Juliana Spahr

“Anyhow, there simply isnt enough room in the museums Fishes Hall, so weve decided to pretend to the public that a whale is actually a mammal without any legs. Its pathetically ridiculous-I mean to say, just look at the thing, its a gigantic fish if I ever saw one-but mums the word! In my experience the public will believe just about anything, so long as you write it down on a little piece of card.”

Ifs Writing Believe Looks Mean Littles Long Enough Rooms Saws Pieces Decided Fishes Legs Ridiculous Cards Halls Museums Mum Whales Mammals

Author:Gideon Defoe

“We decided that 'trivial' means 'proved'. So we joked with the mathematicians: We have a new theorem- that mathematicians can prove only trivial theorems, because every theorem that's proved is trivial.”

Mean Science Prove Decided Mathematics Mathematician Theorems

Book:Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton

Source: Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton

“Take it slowly. The deepest resentments are wrapped up in a lot of hurt and pain. We think we're protecting ourselves by not forgiving. Acknowledge that and go easy on yourself. Forgiveness means that you've decided not to let it keep festering inside even if it only comes up once in awhile. Forgiveness is a powerful yet challenging tool that will support and honor you, even in the most extreme circumstances.”

“The first step to forgiveness is the desire to do it, no matter how you feel toward the person who hurt you. Then you make the decision to do it which means it's a firm decision that won't change when your feelings change. The next step is to depend on the Holy Spirit to help you do what you've decided to do.”

“Having a good home, eating good food, wearing good clothes, are a means to living well; they are not the goals of our life. The quality of your life is decided by how peaceful and joyful you are.”

Wells Mean Home Life Is Goal Quality Our Lives Eating Clothes Decided Peaceful Joyful Live Well Affluence Good Food Eating Good

Author:Jaggi Vasudev

“The way I reacted to 9/11 was I decided I didn't want to do any movies that are sad or critical. I decided I didn't want to make my living depressing people or making them go home sick, so I just decided I wanted to do comedy for a while and study it for a while. It doesn't mean everybody should do that, but that was my reaction.”

People Way Want Should Mean Home Wanted Study Comedy Decided Sick Critical Reactions Depressing Home Sick

Author:Jack Nicholson

“The most important thing... was to change their spirit; and since at that time I felt that literature was the best means to this end, I decided to promote literary movement.”

Mean Important Ends Spirit Literature Felt Movement Decided Important Things Existential

Author:Lu Xun

“I had already just sort of decided okay it's just never going to happen. So when they - when my name was called it was an out of body, you know, just glorious moment. It shouldn't mean that much. But, you know, I'd be lying if I didn't say that it meant the world to know that my peers appreciated what I was doing.”

Ifs Knows World Mean Moments Body Happens Lying Names Decided Okay Glorious Peers Appreciated

Author:Debra Messing

“When I was at art school, a lot of art education is about art being a means of self-expression, and as an 18-year-old I didn't know if I had a huge amount I wanted to express. It was a big moment when I decided I wanted to shift the emphasis or the intention of my art from something I disgorged myself upon and something that actually fed me or made me see the world or understand the world.”

Ifs Knows World Years Mean Art Made Self Moments Bigs Wanted School Expression Huge Amount Art Is Decided Intention Feds Emphasis Self Expression Art School Art Education

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“When I was developing the [TV Series "Daredevil"] idea, we were really doing something closer to what was in the comic book. By that, I mean in terms of civilians in the street knew that superpowers were an everyday matter of fact. When it finally ended up at Netflix, they really decided to land it in the Marvel Universe that exists in the cinematic universe. That changes the story entirely. It was no longer about the other, which is what that metaphor was. It's really more about the character herself, which I love.”

“Waiving the rights of conscience, not included in the surrender implied by the social state, & more or less invaded by all Religious establishments, the simple question to be decided, is whether a support of the best & purest religion, the Christian religion itself ought not, so far at least as pecuniary means are involved, to be provided for by the Government, rather than be left to the voluntary provisions of those who profess it.”

Mean States Government Christian Left Social Religious Simple Support Rights Ought Involved Conscience Decided Surrender Establishment Provision Implied

Author:James Madison

“If a person asked my advice, before undertaking a long voyage, my answer would depend upon his possessing a decided taste for some branch of knowledge, which could by this means be advanced. No doubt it is a high satisfaction to behold various countries and the many races of mankind, but the pleasures gained at the time do not counterbalance the evils.”

Ifs Mean Persons Long Country Evil Answers Pleasure Race Doubt Advice Mankind Depends Taste Decided Satisfaction Various Branches No Doubt Voyages Possessing Undertakings

Book:The Voyage of the Beagle

Source: The Voyage of the Beagle

“The fact that there are now many entities that may have some loose affiliation with a former core Al Qaeda - or who have decided to fashion themselves as an affiliate or follower in the Al Qaeda jihadist tradition - as well as groups that are just inspired by the concept that they could also be the perpetrators of mass killing, means that there is a spectrum of threats.”

Wells May Mean Facts Groups Fashion Mass Concepts Tradition Decided Threat Inspired Killing Core Former Als Followers Entity Spectrum Al Qaeda Perpetrators Affiliation

Author:Graham T. Allison

“After a lot of debate and a lot of work, what people decided is, it makes a great deal of sense to be open in the system and allow people to begin to build better flu vaccines. I mean, we're still making them in eggs that come out of chickens. And we can see the consequences of that with the current H1N1 lack of vaccines.”

People Mean Stills Deals Consequence Decided Currents Debate Eggs Chickens Flu Vaccines Flu Vaccine

Author:Juan Enriquez

“Who are you talking to right now? Who is it you think you see? Do you know how much I make a year? I mean, even if I told you, you wouldn't believe it. Do you know what would happen if I suddenly decided to stop going into work? A business big enough that it could be listed on the NASDAQ goes belly up. Disappears. It ceases to exist, without me.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Years Believe Mean Enough Bigs Happens Talking Know How Right Now Decided Disappear Cease Do You Know Insightful Belly Cornered

Author:Walter White

“I'd never even seen orange cheese. I mean, who decided to make that orange? And so there was something different about me that they wanted to crush. I don't think it had anything to do with my physicality, but every single day in school it was, "You're the ugliest thing I've ever seen."”

Thinking Mean Different Wanted School Decided Crush Cheese Orange Physicality

Author:Rose McGowan

“I had to pay an incredible amount to get insured on it and, after a couple of weeks of driving it around, I realised it wasn't quite my style. I'm not flash by any means but a bright red Ferrari is a definite head-turner and I hated that. It was also incredibly impractical, particularly when it came to finding space for a friend or for my tennis bag, so I decided to sell it after a few months.”

Mean Space Pay Week Style Months Amount Couple Findings Red Decided Sells Incredibles Driving Hated Tennis Bags Flash Definite Realised Ferrari Turner

Author:Andy Murray

“Are any of you out there worried that it means something bad that [Donald] Trump has decided not to prosecute Hillary [Clinton]? I'm just asking, because I'm hearing from people who are.”

People Mean Trump Decided Asking Clinton Hearing Worried

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Gian Luigi Polidoro and his girlfriend had written this script, it was an American comedy, and they decided I was the guy to play the part. I was young, they offered me the lead in the film, and I said, "Sure, I'll do it." And I'm telling you, there is a movie waiting to be made about the making of a movie like that, particularly at that time in New York. I mean, we shot all over the streets of New York without permits. We would literally grab a shot and run. But Rent Control... I think the total cost was $100,000, and to this director's credit, I think it looks like $200,000.”

Thinking Looks Mean Made Said Play Running Film Young Guy Waiting Comedy Written Streets New York Cost Directors Shots Decided Scripts Credit Girlfriend Permit Lead In Rent Control

Author:Brent Spiner

“[The Book of the Law]was lost for so many years. And then Josiah decided to celebrate Passover. The text says that "The Passover sacrifice had not been offered in that way ... during the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah" [2 Kings 23:22]. What do you mean? Not in the days of David and Solomon? Never before? And what of the days of the prophets? What happened? That's what I'm anguishing over. If the Book of the Law could be forgotten for so many years, who knows what was done to it during those years? Maybe it was lost later, too.”

Ifs Knows Way Years Mean Book Done Law Lost Happened Sacrifice Kings Decided Forgotten Israel Celebrate Prophet Solomon Judah

Author:Elie Wiesel

“Back in the late '90s, a writer named Daniel Handler decided that kids books were too cheerful. I mean, all the "Harry Potter" series did was occasionally kill off major characters. Thus was born "A Series Of Unfortunate Events" and its mysterious author, Lemony Snicket. "A Series Of Unfortunate Events" is now a great new series on Netflix.”

“I was like, "This is a new thing that the gay people have decided? That's the gayest thing I've ever heard in my life." You can't do that. You can't decide that a word is forbidden now collectively amongst your group of human beings, that the word is a slanderous evil nasty word about homosexuals. It's not, the word doesn't mean that. And sometimes it's a good word to use in comedy. That's what your friend has to realize when he's at a bar just yelling out the word.”

People Humans Mean Sometimes Use Evil Realizing Human Beings Comedy Heard Groups Gay Decided Bars New Things Nasty Homosexual Forbidden Yelling Gay People Good Words

Author:Joe Rogan

“I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I've had, things I've been through, and even the stuff I'm embarrassed about.”

Want Mean Artist Song Stuff Decided Get Up Embarrassed Bad Ass Badass

Author:Pink

“Just because two of the people in this barn have decided to spend their lives together doesn't mean the rest of us are obligated to instantly find our soul mates. It's okay if we just dance.”

People Ifs Mean Two Soul Together Decided Okay Mates Soul Mate Just Dance Barns Life Together

Book:Rules for Hearts

Source: Rules for Hearts

“That was the goth stage, where I decided I'd never get the girl of my dreams because of my scars. Not to mention my hairstyle. (pause) But then she slammed a door handle into my gut. And when a girl does that to a boy, it means she likes him.”

Mean Doe Dream Girl Boys Doors Stage Decided Likes Handle Guts Scar Pauses Hairstyles Goth Girl Of My Dreams

Book:Wake

Source: Wake

“Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.”

Ifs Needs Heart Mean Broken Thousand Decided Retelling

Book:Night

Source: Night

“But because of his telling, many who did not believe have come to believe, and some who did not care have come to care. He tells the story, out of infinite pain, partly to honor the dead, but also to warn the living - to warn the living that it could happen again and that it must never happen again. Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all. (vi)”

Ifs Needs Believe Heart Mean Stories Happens Care Pain Broken Honor Thousand Decided Infinite Retelling

Book:Night

Source: Night

“...she's leaving now. ... Janis attacks the back door of the school gym and finds herself in a heavy cloud of smoke. She realizes she's found the Goths' hangout. Who knew? "Oof," someone says. She keeps walking, muttering, "sorry" to whomever it was she hit with the flying door. *** Cabel: ... That was the Goth stage where I decided I'd never get the girl of my dreams because of my scars. Not to mention the hairstyle. (pause) But then she slammed a door handle into my gut. And, when a girl does that to a boy, it means she likes him.”

“So today if you see a person who looks like your teenage fantasy walking down the street, it's probably not your fantasy, but someone who had the same fantasy as you and decided instead of getting it or being it, to look like it, and so he went to the store and bought the look that you both like. So forget it. Just think about all the James Deans and what it means.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Mean Persons Today Forget Fantasy Streets Walking Decided Stores Teenage Forget It Dean

Book:The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

“Curled up at the base of the scales, fast asleep, was the oddest monster I'd seen yet. It had the head of crocodile with a lion's mane. The front half of its body was a lion, but the back end was sleek, brown, and fat - a hippo, I decided. The odd bit was, the animal was tiny - I mean, no larger than an average poodle, which I suppose made him a hippodoodle.”

Mean Made Ends Body Bits Animal Half Fronts Decided Average Tiny Monsters Scales Fats Odd Brown Lions Crocodiles Poodles Hippo

Author:Rick Riordan

“Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.”

Life Inspirational Looks Mean Inspiration Happiness Decision Perfect Acceptance Positive Perspective Perfection Decided Happy Life Changing Self Respect Imperfection Happy Life Imperfect Being Happy Better Life Positive Life Changing Your Life Most Interesting Rama Being Positive Student Success Single Mom Happiness And Love Feeling Happy Changing My Life Self Happiness Live Life Happy Positive Inspirational Happiness Is A Choice Inspirational Change Looking For Happiness Perfect Happiness Found Happiness Student Motivation Life And Inspirational Happy Things Life Motivation Motivation And Change Life Best Inspirational Imperfect World Student Motivational Inspirational Student Powerful Motivational Simple Happiness Love Life Inspirational Life Is Changing My Life Is Changing Love Life Happiness Happiness Now Inspiring Students Inspiration And Life Life Changing Love Being Happy With Yourself Love And Inspiration Life Love And Happiness Reasons To Be Happy Looking For Inspiration

Author:Gerard Way

“It's strange, isn't it, how the idea of belonging to someone can sound so great? It can be comforting, the way it makes things decided. We like the thought of being held, until it's too tight. We like that certainty, until it means there's no way out. And we like being his, until we realize we're not ours anymore.”

Way Mean Ideas Sound Realizing Strange Decided Certainty Belonging Comforting

Book:Stay

Source: Stay

“I mean,he decided we'd be better apart,you know?it wasn't a joint decision.like, if your gonna make a decision about me and my life without consulting me,i'd better be dying and unconscious and you'd better be following carefully written instructions.”

Ifs Knows Mean Decision Written Dying Decided Following Unconscious Instruction Joints Consulting

Book:Maximum Ride: Angel

Source: Maximum Ride: Angel

“The expression "following suit" is a curious one, because it has nothing to do with walking behind a matching set of clothing. If you follow suit, it means you do the same thing somebody else has just done. If all of your friends decided to jump off a bridge into the icy waters of an ocean or river, for instance, and you jumped in right after them, you would be following suit. You can see why following suit can be a dangerous thing to do, because you could end up drowning simply because somebody else thought of it first.”

“At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - relief or despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking - 'wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant!”

People Thinking Way Mean Two Age Universe Waiting Situation Five Despair Decided Revelations Relief Two Ways Vacant

Author:Gareth Roberts

“Maybe wrist corsages cut off circulation to the brain? I mean, is that why so many girls do stupid things on prom night? I was really going to have to investigate this further, I decided”

Mean Night Girl Brain Cutting Stupid Decided Wrists Circulation Stupid Things Prom Prom Night

Book:I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

“I used to listen to it all the time when I was little and thinking about grown-up things. I would go to my bedroom window and stare at my reflection in the glass and the trees behind it and just listen to the song for hours. I decided then that when I met someone I thought was as beautiful as the song, I should give it to that person. And I didn’t mean beautiful on the outside. I meant beautiful in all ways.”

Thinking Way Giving Should Mean Littles Persons Beautiful Used Song Hours Behinds Tree Mets Reflection Window Decided Glasses Staring Bedroom Just Listen

Book:The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition

“...the Stone Table [was] a place that served as the OK Corral for the Faerie Courts when they decided to engage in diplomacy by means of murdering anyone on the other team.”

Mean Team Stones Decided Tables Court Diplomacy Faerie

Book:Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files

Source: Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files

“I was going to say 'my friend Stuart', but I suppose he's not a friend any more. I seem to have lost a number of friends in the last few years. I don't mean that I've fallen out with them, in any dramatic way. We've just decided not to stay in touch. And that's what it's been: a decision, a conscious decision, because it's not difficult to stay in touch with people nowadays, there are so many different ways of doing it. But as you get older, I think that some friendships start to feel increasingly redundant. You just find yourself asking, "What's the point?" And then you stop.”

Source: The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim

“In this society the young people from the cities and from the countryside, professionals or not, often unemployed, have all means to join and reinforce our efforts to raise the brave torch of Human Rights that illuminates the way in which the future of us all is decided.”

People Way Humans Mean Young Effort Cities Rights Society Youth Future Decided Raises Brave Human Rights Unemployed Countryside Torches This Society

Author:Martin Almada

“To me, money is a means to do good. I reached a point in my life where I had enjoyed tremendous business success that afforded my family everything we could possibly want. My wife and I then decided that we could use our wealth to make a difference. So we created the Broad Foundations to do four things: to improve urban public education, to support innovative scientific and medical research, to foster art appreciation for audiences worldwide and to support civic initiatives in Los Angeles.”

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