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“I honor God that much in the way I play. That's why I never believe in getting tired. I don't even know what that word means.”

Knows Way Believe Mean Play Honor Tired Getting Tired

Author:Ray Lewis

“I do not trust technology. I mean, I don't think we're in any danger of kids, you know, doing without video games in the future, but I am saying that their lives are largely out of balance.”

Thinking Knows Mean Kids Games Technology Danger Balance Video

Author:Richard Louv

“It's a roll of the dice in the movie business. I mean, every single movie is a roll of the dice. Any movie on paper could look like it's going to be fantastic. You know what I mean?”

Knows Looks Mean Paper Fantastic Dice Movie Business

Author:Kevin McKidd

“My favorite music to sing would be my own songs, my original songs, just because I know them, you know I write the tunes, so my favorite songs are the newest ones that I write. That's what I like to sing the most, because it means something, it's real, it comes from me.”

Knows Writing Mean Real Would Be Song My Own Originals My Favorite Tunes Favorite Song Favorite Music

Author:Paul McDonald

“If you're running for reelection in the House of Representatives race, you know, it's very important to you that you be on fairly good terms with the local affiliates in the largest market in your area. I mean you don't want to antagonize them.”

Ifs Knows Want Mean Important Running House Term Race Areas Locals Representatives House Of Representatives Reelection

Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“I mean I don't want to feel inferior to any other golfer in the world. You know if you do that, then you know you're giving them an advantage, you know, right off the - you know, right from the start.”

Ifs Knows World Want Giving Feels Mean Advantage Inferiors Golfers

Author:Rory McIlroy

“I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting.”

Knows Trying Mean Focus Fame Fleeting

Author:Taylor Momsen

“I mean as long as I have been doing music I know I am only 30% of what I could be and want to be.”

Knows Want Mean Long Has Beens

Author:Tim McGraw

“If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.”

Ifs Knows Mean Different Wish Concepts Excitement Different Things God Knows

Author:Connie Nielsen

“For sure, you don't believe the good stuff. I mean, the good stuff is just insane - wacky. If you don't take it too much to heart, it does help when the negative stuff hits. And you know the negative stuff is coming. It's got to! What comes up must come down.”

Ifs Knows Believe Heart Mean Doe Helping Stuff Too Much Negative Don't Believe Come Up Insane Wacky

Author:Julia Ormond

“Well, first you have to love writing. A lot of authors love having written. But I enjoy the actual writing. Beside that, I think the main reason I can be so prolific is the huge amount of planning I do before I start to write. I do a very complete, chapter-by-chapter outline of every book I write. When I sit down to write, I already know everything that's going to happen in the book. This means I've done all the important thinking, and I can relax and enjoy the writing. I could never write so many books if I didn't outline them first.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Firsts Wells Mean I Can Important Book Reason Done Happens Enjoy Written Huge Amount Planning Relax Chapters Outlines

Author:R. L. Stine

“Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.”

Knows Looks Mean Book Rooms Education Class Know How Teacher

Author:Chuck Berry

“The Israelis object to an imposed settlement I don't know what they mean by an imposed settlement. It's quite obvious, without the all out support by the United States in money and weapons and so on the Israelis couldn't do what they've been doing. So we bear a very great share of the responsibility for the continuation of this...of this state of warfare.”

Knows Mean States United Responsibility United States Support Share Objects Bears Weapons Jew Obvious Warfare Settlement Continuation

Author:J. William Fulbright

“We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire... those are things we all have inside of us, and that's what my songs are about... what it means to be a human being.”

Knows Humans Mean Desire Song Human Beings Sadness Despair Longing Hopelessness Faith In Love

Author:Ron Pope

“I had gone away from Twitter because before people had been so mean to me. Talking about my lisp and my enormous forehead and all these things. I do have a lisp, I do have a forehead I know you could land a plane on, it's no mystery to me. I just didn't have the skin for it.”

People Knows Mean Talking Gone Mystery Land Skins Enormous Planes Foreheads Lisp Gone Away

Author:Sarah Paulson

“If any of you have ever lived down south of the Mason-Dixon line, you know that late September still means summer heat.”

Ifs Knows Mean Stills Lines Late Summer South Heat September Masons

Author:Scott Porter

“I mean, people don't know what race I am. They never know if I'm Hawaiian or Italian or Mexican or Spanish or white. I could play Jewish, I could play anything.”

People Ifs Knows Mean Play White Race Italian Mexican Mean People Hawaiians

Author:Tyler Posey

“You know, I started doing movies. I mean, my mind was brought into saying, you know what? I want to build a generation of wealth.”

Knows Want Mind Mean Wealth Generations

Author:Master P

“You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means - I mean... you know, to say that I would be glad would mean that I planned it.”

Knows Way Feels Mean Would Be Glad Fortunate

Author:Oliver Platt

“It means a lot in my business and its a wonderful feeling to be recognized for what you have done over a lifetime, but I didn't go crazy. I still eat my cereal in the morning, have a sandwich in the afternoon, go to bed at night. You know, nothing really different.”

Knows Mean Stills Different Done Feelings Night Morning Wonderful Crazy Bed Lifetime Afternoon Sandwiches Cereal

Author:Regis Philbin

“Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose?”

Knows Writing Mean South Boundaries Assurance Phoenix Richmond

Book:My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture

Source: My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture

“The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly.”

Knows Mean Doe Ideas Wish Party Policy Members Determine Socialism Possessed Bourgeois Enmity

Author:Karl Radek

“I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.”

Knows Want Mean Different Actors

Author:Lance Reddick

“You know, I was a nerdy kid going through high school, and then I got to college and that all vanished. I mean, a lot of my good friends - when we were in high school, we would never have been able to hang out together because we were in such different cliques or whatever. Now, who cares?”

Knows Mean Has Beens Different Care Kids Able School Together College High School Hanging Out Good Friend Who Cares Nerdy Clique

Author:Brandon Sanderson

“When you talk about a 'broad-based business tax,' that's a pretty broad term. I don't know what that means. But it's not something I would be supportive of.”

Knows Mean Would Be Term Taxes Broads Supportive

Author:Brian Sandoval

“You have to eat right. That does not mean that I don't drink Cuban coffee. That does not mean that I do not have two cigarettes a day - that's what I'm down to. I drink wine - you know, I'm normal. But I do eat well.”

Knows Wells Mean Doe Two Drink Normal Wine Coffee Cigarette Cuban

Author:Cristina Saralegui

“And I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. It could be that it would take me 12 more books at six years each to get it - which means I would have to live to be 126. Which I fully intend to do, of course.”

Knows Writing Years Mean Book Courses Given Six Aspiration Take Me Accommodate

Author:George Saunders

“Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the meaning/rationale too well, which means that the reader will also know it - and so things have to be ramped up.”

Knows Writing Wells Mean Stories Seems Realizing Reader Obvious Rationale

Book:Tenth of December

Source: Tenth of December

“At the umbilical region we actually network with people. Picture that you are cutting those cords to everyone you know. It doesn't mean you don't love them; you are just cutting down on the negative energy pickup from people.”

People Knows Mean Energy Cutting Negative Regions Cords Negative Energy Pickups Cutting Down

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And the more portentous, more general the word, the more they can also resemble rooms or tunnels. They can expand, or cave in. They can come to be filled with a bad smell. They will often remind us of other rooms, where we'd rather dwell or where we think we are already living. They can be spaces we lose the art or the wisdom of inhabiting. And eventually those volumes of mental intention we no longer know how to inhabit will be abandoned, boarded up, closed down.”

Thinking Knows Writing Mean Art Reality Loses Space Rooms Know How Filled Intention Smell Stuck Rough Abandoned Volume Caves Arrows Tunnels Mean Words

Author:Susan Sontag

“There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My uncle Raphael was a painter, and he used to say, "If the muse is late for work, start without her". You have to be there. You have to be there, and do it, and grind it out, even when it is grinding and you know you're probably going to rewrite all this tomorrow.”

Ifs Knows Writing Mean Done Used Tomorrow Late Sitting Ass Painter Phrases Muse Uncles Grind Showing Up Raphael

Author:Peter S. Beagle

“Stop being jealous, I mean, to be jealous is to suggest that God doesn't know what she is doing. This is ridiculous! She does everything perfectly”

Knows Mean Doe Happiness Buddhism Ridiculous Jealous Being Jealous

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising ("but of course that's why he was doing that, and that means that...") and it's magic and wonderful and strange.”

“One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.”

Knows Mean Ballots Nuisance Oracles

Author:Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

“I mean, you know, sometimes, yeah, you wish for something and you don't get quite what you wish for. But you get something bigger and better.”

Knows Mean Sometimes Wish Bigger Yeah Bigger And Better

Author:Rupert Sanders

“I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty much what's going to happen at the end. But that doesn't mean you know what's going to happen in the middle. For me, it's that sense of what happens in the middle that's important.”

Thinking Knows Way Mean Important Ends Happens Reading Novel Middle Built Anna Predictability

Author:Scarlett Thomas

“I mean, I've always said I have an amazing team and network of friends and people that I work with that, you know, inspire me and enable me to do what I do.”

People Knows Mean Said Team Inspire

Author:Alexander Wang

“I mean, I do actually think there is a qualitative difference between aborting in the early part of the first trimester and in, you know, the middle or later part of the second trimester, in a way that you feel about it in that you grow attached.”

Thinking Knows Way Feels Firsts Mean Grows Differences Middle Qualitative

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“The Beatles mean so much to so many people, you know? Everybody has at least one song of The Beatles that's one of their favorite songs of all time.”

People Knows Mean Song All Time Favorite Song

Author:Evan Rachel Wood

“Ann Romney... looked to me like a corporate wife. The stories she told about struggles - eh! It's hard for me to believe. I mean, she's a very rich woman, and I know that, and America knows that.”

Knows Believe Mean Hard Stories America Struggle Rich Wife Corporate Romney Rich Women

Author:Juan Williams

“I'm definitely in the market for being uncool. There was some funny stuff, like the thing about making sure I show people that I have tattoos and cigarettes so that they know I'm badass. But really, I do have tattoos! And I do smoke cigarettes sometimes, and I can't change that. But I am not badass, by any means. I do some stuff that's tongue-in-cheek, and some stuff that's on the line. And it could be funny, it could be serious, and I never even know myself, because it could be funny that day, and the next day it's totally embarrassing.”

People Knows Mean I Can Sometimes Shows Next Stuff Lines Serious Tongue Smoke Cheeks Cigarette Tattoo Next Day Embarrassing Badass Can't Change Uncool Tongue In Cheek Funny Stuff

Author:Ryan Adams

“Vibrancy is so universally desirable, so totemic in its powers, that even though we aren't sure what the word means, we know the quality it designates must be cultivated. The vibrant, we believe, is what makes certain cities flourish.”

Knows Believe Mean Certain Cities Quality Desirable Vibrancy

Book:No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

Source: No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

“It looks like bribery. I mean,there is every appearance that Hillary Clinton was bribed to grease the sale of, what, 20 percent of America's uranium production to Russia, and then it was covered up by lying about a meeting with her home with the principals, and by erasing e-mails. And I presume we might know for sure whether there was or was not bribery if she hadn't wiped out you know, out thousands of e-mails.”

Ifs Knows Looks Mean Home Might America Lying Percent Meetings Clinton Productions Appearance Russia Covered Mail Principal Grease Bribery Uranium Covered Up

Author:Jedediah Bila

“Yoga means we accept responsibility for the tasks in our life, and we know that being a king, being an enlightened teacher, being someone who sweeps the streets, we know that nothing is a greater yoga than anything else.”

Knows Mean Responsibility Accepting Greater Teacher Our Lives Streets Kings Yoga Tasks Enlightened Hinduism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.”

Ifs Knows Want Mean Prayer Praying God Knows

Book:Day by Day

Source: Day by Day

“Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.”

Knows Mean Doe Lying Religion Order Speak Leadership Destruction Mere Lawyer Liars Portions Deceiving Deceptive Craftsman

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I just can't sit still and meditate; that doesn't kind of work for me. I don't even know exactly what it means.”

Knows Kind Mean Stills

Author:Al Franken

“When you are insulted by someone or humiliated, guard against angry thoughts, lest they arouse a feeling of irritation, and so cut you off from love and place you in the realm of hatred. You should know that you have been greatly benefited when you have suffered deeply because of some insult or indignity; for by means of the indignity self-esteem has been driven out of you.”

Knows Should Mean Has Beens Self Feelings Christian Cutting Self Esteem Hatred Angry Driven Esteem Realms Insult Orthodox Insulted Humiliated Irritation Indignity

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“Those who, animal-like, live solely according to the senses... misuse God's creation in order to indulge the passions. They do not understand the principle of that wisdom which is revealed to all: that we should know and praise God through His creation and that by means of the visible world we should understand whence we came, what we are, for what purpose we were made and where we are going. On the contrary, they travel through this present age in darkness... with... ignorance of God.”

“I'm old enough to have friends and contemporaries who have long since retired, and that's their prerogative - enough is enough; it doesn't mean a thing to me. But I haven't got any money, so, you know, I just keep on working.”

Knows Mean Long Enough Havens Retired Prerogative Enough Is Enough

Author:Mike Leigh

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