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“What we call barbecuing in this country is actually direct grilling. In many countries, it also means cooking in an enclosed box with a heat source, ideally wood, all year round.”

Years Mean Country Source Direct Cooking Rounds Boxes Woods Heat Grilling

Author:Jamie Oliver

“We have the EURO as a currency, which means a lot. It has not just stabilized the situation in Kosovo politically and economically, but also facilitated the direct contact that we have with Europe.”

Mean Situation Europe Direct Contact Currency Euro Kosovo

Author:Ibrahim Rugova

“Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of the enemy's main forces on the battlefield'. Air-power might attain a direct end by indirect means - hopping over opposition instead of overthrowing it.”

Firsts Mean Ends Might Force Moral Enemy Air Economic Achieve Military Possibility Direct Destruction Opposition Centre Battlefields Air Force Indirect Air Power Hopping

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.”

Thinking Mean Reading Direct Surrogates

Book:101 Facts of life

Source: 101 Facts of life

“Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.”

Way Mind Mean Self Problem Meditation Direct Again And Again Clinging Meditating

Author:Bill Vaughan

“With my work I attempt to help man to overcome his alienation; I do this by surrounding his daily life with objects, which confront him in a tactile way with the final and deepest problems of our existence. I want the means that I employ to create the necessary stimulus to be as direct as possible. Instead of giving a sermon on humility, I often prefer to depict humility itself.”

Men Way Want Giving Mean Helping Problem Existence Objects Humility Direct Overcoming Finals Daily Life Sermons Alienation Stimulus Tactile

Author:Antoni Tapies

“Any philosophic explanation of Quality is going to be both false and true precisely because it is a philosophic explanation. The process of philosophic explanation is an analytic process, a process of breaking something down into subjects and predicates. What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word 'quality' cannot be broken down into subjects and predicates. This is not because Quality is so mysterious but because Quality is so simple, immediate and direct.”

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Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“When an individual passes from one period of life to another a time comes when he cannot go on in senseless activity and excitement as before, but has to understand that although he has out-grown what before used to direct him, this does not mean that he must live without any reasonable guidance, but rather that he must formulate for himself an understanding of life corresponding to his age, and having elucidated it must be guided by it. And in the same way a similar time must come in the growth and development of humanity.”

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Book:The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy: A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe, Christianity and Patriotism, Reason and Religion, The Gospel in Brief and more: Lessons on What it Means to be a True Christian From the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of War and Peace & Anna Karenina (Including Letter to a Kind YouthandCorrespondences with Gandhi)

Source: The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy: A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe, Christianity and Patriotism, Reason and Religion, The Gospel in Brief and more: Lessons on What it Means to be a True Christian From the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of War and Peace & Anna Karenina (Including Letter to a Kind YouthandCorrespondences with Gandhi)

“By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with what I love - the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun, all that we mean when we speak of the external world. I want to enter into it, to be part of it, to live in it, to learn from it, to lose all that is superficial and acquired in me and to become a conscious, direct human being. I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.”

World Want Humans Mean Earth Speak Understanding Loses Human Beings Wonder Sun Sea Conscious Adults Direct Contact Breathing Superficial Breathing Life Understanding Myself

Book:Stories. Selected,

Source: Stories. Selected,

“The TV camera has no shutter. It does not deal with aspects or facets of objects in high resolution. It is a means of direct pick-up by the electrical groping over surfaces.”

Mean Doe Deals Objects Tvs Picks Aspect Direct Cameras Surface Resolution Electrical Facets Shutters

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount to knowing and understanding.”

Mean Understanding Perfect Knowing Dangerous Illusion Direct Caught Knowing And Understanding

Book:Film as Art

Source: Film as Art

“Many people are noting the difference between Hillary Clinton's friendly public appearances and her blunt and direct Twitter account. Yeah, she's nice in person, and mean on the Internet. You know, kinda like EVERYONE.”

People Knows Mean Persons Differences Nice Internet Direct Accounts Yeah Clinton Appearance Friendly Blunt

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“U.S. labor leaders will realize that automation can multiply man's wealth far more rapidly than it is multiplying at present and that automation will leave all men free to search and research... Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.”

Men Mean Politics Realizing Hours Wealth Leader Economy Industry Research Labor Direct Bases Competition Liberalism Buying Wages Automation Multiplying Buying Power

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“When that devil's bullet lodged itself inside the body of Martin Luther King, he had already begun an astonishing mobilization of poor, Black, white, latino Americans who had nothing to lose. They would challenge our government to eliminate exploitative, merciless, and war-mongering policies, nationwide, or else "tie up the country" through "means of civil disobedience." Dr. King intended to organize those legions into "coercive direct actions" that would make of Babylon a dysfunctional behemoth begging for relief. Is it any wonder he was killed?”

“To lead means to direct and to exact, and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin, the generality, and God (the Word).”

Men Mean Might Given Authority Direct Dare Trinity Generalities

Book:More in Anger

Source: More in Anger

“To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, more selective, more acute eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world. Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times-the pulse of today. The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will, but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in.”

“I don't support direct democracy because I want a life, and that means I want to select people who work for me who do that sort of work for me.”

People Want Mean Support Democracy Direct Select Direct Democracy

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“A direct statement about yourself is considered objective only if it is negative. If it's positive, it is considered subjective. And 'objective' means it is accurate, and 'subjective' means it is conceited self-delusion.”

Ifs Mean Self Negative Direct Statements Objectives Delusion About Yourself Accurate Subjective Conceited Self Delusion

Book:Wishcraft: How to Get what You Really Want

Source: Wishcraft: How to Get what You Really Want

“Direct aggression against Cuba would mean nuclear war. The Americans speak about such aggression as if they did not know or did not want to accept this fact. I have no doubt they would lose such a war.”

Ifs Knows Want Mean War Facts Speak Loses Accepting Doubt Direct Nuclear No Doubt Aggression Cuba Nuclear War

Author:Che Guevara

“Look, therefore, which way we will, whether at the direct Scriptural statements of death as the penalty of sin, or at the agony of the cross as a means of rescue, or at the joy of the angels of God over a rescue; we see from either that it must be a work of infinite and eternal consequence--the work of redemption.”

Way Looks Mean Joy Sin Eternal Angel Consequence Crosses Direct Infinite Statements Redemption Rescue Agony Penalties

Book:Christianity's Challenge and Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration

Source: Christianity's Challenge and Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration

“To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them ("les orienter", Fr.) in a new spirit.”

Men Mean Spirit Humanity He Man Direct Reform Mentality

Author:African Spir

“Reading is the subtle and thorough sharing of the ideas and feelings by underhanded means. It is a gross invasion of Privacy and a direct violation of the Constitutions of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Age. The Teaching of Reading is equally a crime against Privacy and Personhood. One to five years on each count.”

Years Mean Ideas Feelings Age Reading Five Teaching Crime Direct Thirds Constitution Five Years Privacy Subtle Fourth Gross Fifth Invasion Violation Thorough Personhood Invasion Of Privacy

Author:Walter Tevis

“There is one central characteristic of anarchism on the matter of means, and that central principle is a principle of direct action - of not going through the forms that the society offers you, of representative government, of voting, of legislation, but directly taking power.”

Mean Matter Government Action Form Principles Offers Direct Characteristics Voting Representatives Legislation Anarchism Direct Action Representative Government

Author:Howard Zinn

“The idea of direct action against the evil that you want to overcome is a kind of common denominator for anarchist ideas and anarchist movements. I think one of the most important principles of anarchism is that you cannot separate means and ends. Anarchism requires means and ends to be in line with one another. I think this is in fact one of the distinguishing characteristics of anarchism.”

Thinking Want Kind Mean Important Ideas Ends Facts Action Evil Lines Common Principles Movement Direct Overcoming Characteristics Anarchism Anarchist Common Denominator Direct Action

Author:Howard Zinn

“In one of the accounts of Jesus's death we read that the curtain in the temple of God-the one that kept people out of the holiest place of God's presence-ripped.One New Testament writer said that this ripping was a picture of how, because of Jesus, we can have new, direct access to God.A beautiful idea.But the curtain ripping also means that God comes out, that God is no longer confined to the temple as God was previously.”

People Mean Said Ideas Beautiful Jesus Direct Accounts Access Temples Testament Curtains Confined New Testament Ripped God's Presence

Author:Rob Bell

“Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell developed civilizations can produce good prose. So don't think of poetry as a perverse and unnatural way of distorting ordinary prose statements: prose is a much less natural way of speaking than poetry is. If you listen to small children, and to the amount of chanting and singsong in their speech, you'll see what I mean.”

“I love watching all sorts of different types of movies, but that doesn't mean they're necessarily movies I want to be making. I'm not sitting around saying, "Man, I'd really love to direct a western." That's just not something I'm probably going to do. But, I'm just looking to work on things that both feel professionally exciting and personally relevant.”

Men Want Feels Mean Different Type Sitting Direct Exciting Western Relevant Sitting Around

Author:Josh Radnor

“In general, therefore, color is a means of exerting a direct influence upon the soul. Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many strings. The artist is the hand that purposefully sets the soul vibrating by means of this or that key.”

Mean Soul Hands Eye Artist Influence Color Keys Direct Piano Strings Hammers Keyboards

Book:Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art

Source: Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art

“I love directing, It means so much to me to direct stories about subject matter that I care deeply about. I can act in many things, and you can try to experience different characters, but to direct is years of your life and you have to really love it and believe in it.”

Love Life Trying Years Believe Mean I Can Different Matter Character Stories Care Subjects Direct Love Life I Care Subject Matter Different Characters

Author:Angelina Jolie

“It is marriage, perhaps, which had given man the best of his freedom, given him his little kingdom of his own within the big kingdom of the state.... It is a true freedom because it is a true fulfilment, for man, woman and children. Do we then want to break marriage? If we do break it, it means we all fall to a far greater extent under the direct sway of the State.”

Ifs Men Want Mean Children Littles States Bigs Fall Given Break Greater Direct Kingdoms Men Women Fulfilment True Freedom

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“In any society freedom of thought will probably be of direct significance for a small minority. But this does not mean that anyone is competent, or ought to have power, to select those to whom this freedom is to be reserved.”

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Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Our country regularly uses military force, but only a fraction of Americans serve in the military. This means fewer and fewer people have a direct link to the military, and yet it remains as important as ever that we have a rich understanding of what we are doing as a country.”

People Mean Important Country Use Force Understanding Rich Military Direct Remains Our Country Links Fewer Fractions Military Force

Author:Phil Klay

“I think this is an exciting time to be a female filmmaker. Trust your instincts, work harder than anyone else and learn your craft. Know it all. This means learn how to shoot, edit, produce and direct. Get as much experience as you can and watch a lot of films.”

Thinking Knows Mean Film Watches Produce Hard Work Female Direct Exciting Harder Instinct Crafts Filmmaker Edits Work Harder Know It All Trust Your Instincts

Author:Alex Hammond

“Parental trust is extremely important in the guidance of adolescent children as they get further and further away from the direct supervision of their parents and teachers. I don't mean that trust without clear guidance is enough, but guidance without trust is worthless.”

Mean Children Important Enough Parent Clear Teacher Direct Guidance Worthless Parental Supervision Parents And Teachers Without Trust

Book:Raising Children in a Difficult Time

Source: Raising Children in a Difficult Time

“What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word 'quality' cannot be broken down into subjects and predicates. This is not because Quality is so mysterious but because Quality is so simple, immediate and direct.”

Ifs Mean Simple Quality Situation Subjects Broken Direct Mysterious What If Broken Down Hypothetical Zen Motorcycle Maintenance

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“I hope, my career is never predictable. And my interests are diverse in that way. I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct. And then when I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director I then look for an acting gig. And I've made it very clear that I'm interested in voiceover work. I mean, I'm always looking for voiceover gigs. I love that.”

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Author:Lake Bell

“If you're a great documentary filmmaker, it doesn't necessarily mean that you're a great narrative filmmaker. There are fantastic documentary filmmakers that can't direct actors. You don't have to do that in a documentary, if it's a real documentary.”

Ifs Mean Real Actors Direct Fantastic Narrative Filmmaker Documentaries

Author:Alexander Skarsgard

“I mean, "The Jinx" is an amazing piece of cinema and amazing television moment, it`s rare documentarians can feel the direct impact of their work.”

Feels Mean Moments Pieces Television Direct Impact Cinema Jinx

Author:Joe Berlinger

“By all means, let us simplify the means of controlling time and the myriad details of our lives, but let us vigorously preserve our responsibility to direct our lives toward human accomplishment, rather than the pure accumulation of information.”

Humans Mean Responsibility Our Lives Information Pure Direct Details Preserves Accomplishment Accumulation Simplify

Book:Timesource

Source: Timesource

“Photography isolates the world via an aperture and gives the photographer the means to see differently, to achieve a spontaneous vision that is direct and uncompromising.”

World Giving Mean Vision Achieve Photography Direct Photographer Spontaneous Uncompromising Aperture

Author:Ellsworth Kelly

“Anarchism means all sort of things to different people but the traditional anarchists' movements assumed that there'd be a highly organized society, just one organized from below with direct participation and so on. Actually, one piece of the media confusion has a basis because there really are two different strands in the occupy movement, both important, but different.”

“We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to overcome it by means of natural association or emotional or spiritual union. There is no way from one person to another. However loving and sympathetic we try to be, however sound our psychology however frank and open our behaviour we cannot penetrate the incognito of the other man, for there are no direct relationships, not even between soul and soul. Christ stands between us, and we can only get into touch with our neighbors through Him.”

“There's this pet phrase about writing that is bandied around particularly in workshops about "finding your own voice as a poet", which I suppose means that you come out from under the direct influence of other poets and have perhaps found a way to combine those influences so that it appears to be your own voice.”

Way Writing Mean Found Voice Influence Poet Findings Direct Phrases Pet Workshops

Author:Billy Collins

“It is great to have direct, unfiltered, interaction with your fans on Twitter and FaceBook, or whatever. I am not totally convinced that it has revolutionized the sales model. Its not completely apparent to me that it is easier to sell music. Obviously, there is a possibility of smaller bands, having their music listened to, but I am not sure to what degree it actually happens. Just because it can happen, doesn't mean it does.”

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Author:Chris Cain

“When we started, I was delivering meals to people in Atlanta. We were a direct-care organization. And it was - people needed meals, they needed transport, they needed medication, they needed buddy systems. They had a death sentence. There was AZT, and that was just prolonging the agony, basically. Now people, of course, if they are on antiretrovirals, they face a lifetime of health, basically. I mean, it doesn't - it's I would say in the 99 percent certainty bracket that if you are on that medication, you will have a healthy life.”

“I was doing a Broadway play, and I was really new to this business. The Broadway play was my first job, literally. The play next door was a musical called Falsettos. The director got hired to direct this Michael J. Fox movie and was looking for a kid who could play brash and salty and mean [in Life With Mikey].”

Firsts Mean Play Kids Jobs Next Doors Directors Direct Musical Foxes Broadway Salty Brash Mikey Falsetto Michael J Fox

Author:David Krumholtz

“I don't want to get too nuanced, but we have the electoral college in the United States and that means we don't have direct democracy.”

Want Mean States United United States Democracy College Direct Electoral College Direct Democracy

Author:Moby

“The situation in Europe is much more advanced, in terms of pro-genocide trends, than in the United States, yet. But we're going very rapidly in that direct, and Obama is the specific driver of that crime. I mean, this is a guy waiting for his Nuremberg trial: That's what this President is!”

Mean States Guy Waiting President Term United Situation United States Crime Europe Direct Trials Drivers Trends Genocide Nuremberg Nuremberg Trials

Author:Lyndon LaRouche

“When globalisation means that many of the services that individual governments used to have direct power over are privatised, in education and health, even prison services, nonetheless national sovereignty still needs to be exercised.”

Needs Mean Stills Government Used Individual Direct Prison Sovereignty Globalisation National Sovereignty

Author:Mary Robinson

“I guess I stayed with the faith. I mean, organized religion is not something that I've maintained a direct connection to in my life, but the spirituality of it has had an indelible impact on my life and remains with me.”

Mean Spirituality Direct Connections Remains Impact Organized Organized Religion Indelible

Author:Dwight Yoakam