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“I was just on Broadway for four months, and the amount of fan mail that arrived at the theater was just overwhelming. I mean, I had no idea! I guess people suddenly had access to me and knew where to find me, so they got me there, and I was amazed.”

People Mean Ideas Four Fans Months Amount Theater Access No Idea Overwhelming Mail Amazed Broadway Find Me Fan Mail

Author:Sonya Walger

“I'm a yarnaholic. That means I have more yarn stashed away than any one person could possibly use in three or four lifetimes. There's something inspiring about yarn that makes me feel I could never have enough.”

Feels Mean Persons Enough Use Three Four Lifetime Yarn

Author:Debbie Macomber

“Being asked to describe what 'post-racial' means is a bit like being asked to describe a leprechaun, cold fusion or unicorns: we know what is meant, but, if we are willing to be honest, we also know that none of the four describe something real, something tangible, something true.”

Ifs Knows Mean Real Bits Four Honest Willing Cold Posts Being Honest Tangible Unicorn Fusion Something Real Leprechaun

Author:Tim Wise

“New York City has 2 million rats. We used to have 8 million rats. Now we're down to 2 million. You know what that means? We lose four electoral votes.”

Knows Mean Used Loses Cities Millions Four New York Vote New York City Rats

Author:David Letterman

“The university is well structured, well tooled, to turn out people with all the sharp edges worn off, the well-rounded person. The university is well equipped to produce that sort of person, and this means that the best among the people who enter must for four years wander aimlessly much of the time questioning why they are on campus at all, doubting whether there is any point in what they are doing, and looking toward a very bleak existence afterward in a game in which all of the rules have been made up, which one cannot really amend.”

People Years Wells Mean Persons Has Beens Made Turns Games Existence Doubt Four Produce University Edges Wander Four Years Questioning Worn Campus Bleak Well Rounded Sharp Edges Questioning Why

Author:Mario Savio

“I write four or five a books a year. That means that I usually have one on the go. I am fortunate in being able to write quickly - 1000 words an hour.”

Writing Years Mean Book Able Hours Five Four Fortunate

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“If your rod weighs six ounces, your reel nine, and your line another ounce or two, it means that you are holding a pound of weight in your casting hand - much of the time at arm's length - all the time you fish. Try carrying a pound of butter around that way for four or five hours.”

Ifs Way Trying Mean Two Hands Hours Lines Five Four Sea Arms Six Rivers Weight Fishes Nine Boat Lakes Fishing Pounds Length Casting

Author:Ted Trueblood

“Why can't a photograph be all four things at once? -be an art object; be a document, what ever that means exactly, but deal with content; be a formalist exploration; and operate on some, metaphor is not the right word but, resonant level.”

Mean Art Levels Deals Four Objects Photographer Photograph Metaphor Exploration Documents Right Words

Author:Stephen Shore

“We spend about 20 percent of our total sleep time in a dream state. For most of us, this means we dream one and a half hours each night or, on the average, spend four years of our lifetime in a dream state.”

Years Mean States Dream Night Hours Sleep Half Four Percent Lifetime Average Four Years Half Hours Time To Sleep

Book:Creative Dreaming: Plan And Control Your Dreams To Develop Creativity Overcome Fears Solve Proble

Source: Creative Dreaming: Plan And Control Your Dreams To Develop Creativity Overcome Fears Solve Proble

“My first experience in the Netherlands was very pleasant, extremely pleasant. I mean, I got my residence permit, refugee status, within four weeks of arrival. People treated me extremely well.”

People Firsts Wells Mean Four Week Treated Pleasant Permit Refugee Arrivals Residence Netherlands

Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.”

Thinking Kind Mean Remember Night Sleep Four Crazy Projects Focused Architect Exhausted Deadline Delirium No Sleep All Nighters

Author:Zaha Hadid

“For me, I think being a conservative means you are focused on all four key principles: strong defense, lower taxes, less spending, and defending traditional American values.”

Thinking Mean Values Strong Principles Four Keys Taxes Conservative Focused Spending Defense Traditional American Values

Author:Jim Jordan

“As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying.”

Mean Lying Morning Worry Four Lucky Clock Novelists Awake Don't Lie I Don't Lie

Author:David Nicholls

“The important point there is that when people talk about a mean temperature rise of say two, three or four degrees that's a sort of global average which really is a signature of large scale change in climatic patterns.”

People Mean Two Important Three Four Degrees Average Patterns Scales Temperature Signatures Large Scale

Author:Martin Rees

“One of the computer models for a four degree temperature rise would give rise to a 10 degree temperature rise in Africa. And bear in mind also that in the depth of an ice age the mean temperature drop compared to the present was five degrees.”

Giving Mind Mean Age Five Four Bears Degrees Computer Models Depth Ice Temperature Ice Age

Author:Martin Rees

“A four percent growth strategy means you fix a convoluted tax code. You get in and you change every aspect of regulations that are job killers. You get rid of Obamacare and replace it with something that doesn't suppress wages and kill jobs.”

Mean Jobs Growth Four Taxes Percent Aspect Strategy Code Killers Regulation Wages Obamacare Convoluted

Author:Jeb Bush

“So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a man in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck, selling ergot pills. After all the public is entitled to what it wants, isn't it? The Romans knew that and even they lasted four hundred years after they started to putrefy.”

Ifs Men Want Years Mean Long Shows White Four Television Hundred Selling Necks Entitled Coats Pills Television Shows Hanging Around Stethoscope White Coat

Book:Raymond Chandler Speaking

Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking

“Sometimes HR transformations have been definitions. Just because someone does an e-HR system or puts in a new talent system or changes the HR function does not mean an HR transformation has occurred. We identified four phases of HR transformation. Missing any of the four phases would be an incomplete effort.”

Mean Doe Has Beens Sometimes Would Be Effort Four Talent Missing Function Transformation Definitions Phases Incomplete New Talent

Author:Dave Ulrich

“I'm not against ambition and reach, but if you can say it in four lines, why waste your time saying it in more? Challenge the world by all means, but it's bad for your poetry to take steroids.”

Ifs World Mean Challenges Lines Four Waste Ambition Steroid

Author:Michael Longley

“The arresting officer, who I had literally known, all my life. You know what I mean? This guy lived four doors down the street me, in a town of less than four hundred people. *We've met.* Now, he takes me to jail, and he asks me if I have any aliases. And I was just being a smartass, and I said, "Yeah. They call me, "Tater Salad!" Seventeen years later, I'm handcuffed on a bench in New York with blood coming out of my nose, and this cop goes, "Are you Ron 'Tater Salad' White?"”

“"Nothing is ever lost" means that what we are now goes all the way back through natural history. We are biological organisms and not simply computerized brains. By focusing totally on the present, thinking only about science and computers, and forgetting four billion years of life on this planet, we are losing perspective on who and what we are.”

Thinking Way Years Mean Lost Natural Forget Brain Four Planets Perspective Computer Losing Billions Organisms Natural History Years Of Life

Author:Robert Neelly Bellah

“Trailer for sale or rent, rooms to let, fifty cents. No phone, no pool, no pets, ain't got no big regrets. Two hours of pushin' broom, buys an eight by twelve, four-bit room. I'm a man of means, by no means, king of the road.”

Men Mean Two Bigs Bits Hours Rooms Four Regret Kings Travel Phones Eight Fifty Pet Pool Twelve Cents Trailers Brooms

Author:Roger Miller

“I believe four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work.”

Want Believe Mean I Believe Successful Four Relation Warm Sufficient Ingredients Successful Work

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of four or five million. That means it was a best seller for years. People were thoughtful then. Hope is one thing. But you need to have hope with thought.”

“The average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass. He can't add up three or four new circumstances together and perceive what they mean; it is beyond him. He is not capable of observing for himself; he has to get everything at second-hand. If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year.”

Source: In defense of Harriet Shelley

“I chose the American ones, more or less the last five years of the silent era, because those are the ones that aged the best in the way they tell the story. One, it's about human beings with context. It's a very classical story with feelings, with laughter, melodrama and it really works, the good ones - Murnau's American movies, John Ford's Four Sons, King Vidor's The Crowd, or the (Josef) von Sternberg movies. You can watch it now and it still works. I mean they are really, really good pieces so this is where I tried to work.”

Way Years Humans Mean Stills Stories Feelings Lasts Human Beings Watches Five Pieces Four Son Kings Laughter Silent Crowds Eras Five Years Melodrama American Movie Last Five Years

Author:Michel Hazanavicius

“Why is monotheistic faith better than polytheistic? I mean, either you believe - if you believe in, like, a magic person who can do magic things, why is it different - so different if it's Superman or the Fantastic Four?”

Ifs Believe Mean Persons Different Can Do Four Magic Fantastic If You Believe Fantastic Four

Author:Bill Maher

“In the career world we are downsizing. That means the one person that will keep their job will do three or four jobs for the same amount of money. You have to be that way these days.”

World Way Mean Persons Jobs Three Careers Four Amount These Days Downsizing

Author:Michelle Visage

“My name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five Year Plan Sputnik Tractor Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me Dad was a bit of a Communist, know what I mean?”

Knows Years Mean Names Bits Five Four Plans Dad Band Radical Glorious Five Years Communist Posture Moscow Siege Five Year Plans Sputnik Stalingrad

Author:Alexei Sayle

“I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy. We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. I mean, I know people who can tell you who won the last four seasons on American Idol and they don't know who their [bleeping] Representatives are.”

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