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“I don't like movies that are shot on green screen much, you know. I mean, I know that's the thing to do, and I know that it's getting. I'll put it this way; David Lean would probably kill himself, you know, again if he knew that people were watching Lawrence of Arabia on a telephone.”

People Ifs Knows Way Mean Shots Green Screens Things To Do Telephones Arabia Lawrence Of Arabia

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it.”

Ifs Way Mean Poverty Terrible Taste Solitude Burning Live Your Life Obscurity Way To Live

Author:Paul Auster

“You can actually alter a person's perception when they're that young. I mean, it can affect them in a very positive way.”

Way Mean Persons Young Perception Very Positive

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“Any group of people that has been subordinate absorbs the idea of our own subordination, and that it is natural, and comes to think that the only way to survive is to identify with the powerful. And I think that is not surprising, and it is what happens to a lot of right-wing women. I mean they think they better do what the powerful tell them do otherwise they'll be in even more trouble.”

People Thinking Way Mean Has Beens Ideas Happens Natural Powerful Trouble Groups Wings Surprising Right Wing Subordinates Subordination

Author:Gloria Steinem

“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

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. Sure, everybody wants to play God, but for me it's a full-time job. What you don't understand, you can make mean anything.”

Way Want Mean Play Jobs Cutting Risk True Happiness Full Time Jobs

Author:Jeffree Star

“There’s a tendency for young people to get discouraged and frustrated easily. But don’t be afraid to fail. In many ways, we learn so much more from our failures than our successes. Remind yourself that failure is nothing more than a means to a greater end. Bide your time, learn from your mistakes, and lead by example. If you believe in what you’re doing, it will show.”

People Ifs Way Believe Mean Ends Shows Young Mistake Greater Failing Example Tendencies Frustrated Discouraged If You Believe Learn From Your Mistakes Afraid To Fail

Author:Anna Maria Chavez

“To reach beyond what you are you must ignore the rules and fashions of the day. Or perhaps better yet cast them way out in your peripheral vision where you can still see them but only as a vague reference point. This doesn’t mean that all the rules are gone. It might mean that you adopt a far tighter code of conduct to ensure the necessary level of intensity and adventure.”

Way Mean Stills Might Levels Vision Gone Fashion Adventure Casts Code Intensity Vague Peripheral Vision

Author:Peter Croft

“The upside of being a part of a post-civil rights generation is that black folks really are more diverse. But the flash point for that diversity is caught up in Hip Hop. So you have a generation that says, 'I'm gonna wear my sneakers, and I'm gonna wear my pants how I like themThen you have a generation that says, 'I did not get bit by dogs for you to conduct yourself this way. Then the younger generation says, 'Yes, you did. This is what freedom means.'”

Way Mean Bits Black Rights Generations Dog Diversity Folks Caught Hip Hop Civil Rights Hips Posts Hops Pants Flash Diverse Caught Up Younger Generation Sneakers

Author:Reginald Hudlin

“Purgatory basically means that God can put the pieces back together again. That He can cleanse us in such a way that we are able to be with Him and can stand there in the fullness of life. Purgatory strips off from one person what is unbearable and from another the inability to bear certain things, so that in each of them a pure heart is revealed, and we can see that we all belong together in one enormous symphony of being.”

“I've got evil in me as much as anyone, some desires that scare me. Even if I don't give in to them, just having them scares the living bejesus out of me sometimes. I'm no saint, the way you kid about. But I've always walked the line, walked that goddamned line. It's a mean mother of a line, straight and narrow, sharp as a razor, cuts right into you when you walk it long enough. You're always bleeding on that line, and sometimes you wonder why you don't just step off and walk in the cool grass.”

Ifs Way Giving Mean Long Sometimes Enough Kids Mother Desire Evil Lines Walks Wonder Steps Cutting Saint Grass Scare Bleeding Razors

Book:Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel

Source: Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel

“The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.”

Thinking Way Mean Different Intuition Historian Mathematician Physicist Elegance

Author:Clifford Geertz

“Where there's a doctor it's always a bad sign. Even when they are not doing the killing themselves it means a death is close, and in that way they are like ravens or crows.”

Way Mean Doctors Killing Crow Ravens

Book:Alias Grace: A Novel

Source: Alias Grace: A Novel

“Just because the only way you can maintain control over your bodily passions is to sit straight in your chair, knees together, hands delicately arranged in our lap, fingers tightly intertwined, does not mean that I am required to do the same.”

Way Mean Doe Hands Together Passion Fingers Knees Chairs Over You Lap Intertwined

Book:Seventh Son and Red Prophet

Source: Seventh Son and Red Prophet

“We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods; we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume the end.”

Way May Mean Made Ends Sacrifice Ready Consumers Goods

Author:Karl Kraus

“Since reasoning , or inference, the principal subject of logic, is an operation which usually takes place by means of words , and in complicated cases can take place in no other way: those who have not a thorough insight into both the signification and purpose of words, will be under chances, amounting almost to certainty, of reasoning or inferring incorrectly.”

Way Mean Purpose Chance Cases Subjects Logic Insight Complicated Certainty Operations Reasoning Principal Thorough Inference

Book:A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive: Mill's Works

Source: A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive: Mill's Works

“Underneath all his writing there is the settled determination to use certain words, to take certain attitudes, to produce a certain atmosphere; what he is seeing or thinking or feeling has hardly any influence on the way he writes. The reader can reply, ironically, "That's what it means to have a style"; but few people have so much of one, or one so obdurate that you can say of it, "It is a style that no subject can change.”

People Thinking Way Writing Mean Use Feelings Certain Attitude Seeing Influence Subjects Style Produce Reader Determination Atmosphere

Author:Randall Jarrell

“I believe that we have to strive for a transition to a socialist society ... all the way to communism. I mean I think we should, uh, I think we should all study what the word means and I believe that if everyone knew what the word meant we would all be on our knees praying that we would, as soon as possible, be able to live under, uh, within a communist structure.”

Ifs Thinking Way Should Believe Mean Able I Believe Study Praying Structure Strive Communism Knees Communist Transition Socialist

Author:Jane Fonda

“It is that the Spirit is the outbreathing of God, His inmost life going forth in a personal form to quicken. When we receive the Holy Spirit, we receive the inmost life of God Himself to dwell in a personal way in us. When we really grasp this thought, it is overwhelming in its solemnity. Just stop and think what it means to have the inmost life of that infinite and eternal Being whom we call God, dwelling in a personal way in you. How solemn and how awful and yet unspeakably glorious life becomes when we realize this.”

Thinking Way Mean Form Spirit Realizing Holy Eternal Infinite Awful Holy Spirit Glorious Overwhelming Solemn Dwelling Solemnity Glorious Life

Book:THE PERSON AND WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Source: THE PERSON AND WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

“At whatever time highly skilled physicians shall have developed the healing of illnesses by means of foods, and shall make provision for simple foods, and shall prohibit humankind from living as slaves to their lustful appetites, it is certain that the incidence of chronic and diversified illnesses will abate, and the general health of all mankind will be much improved. This is destined to come about. In the same way, in the character, the conduct and the manners of men, universal modifications will be made.”

Men Way Mean Made Character Certain Simple Healing Mankind Universal Slave Illness Manners Appetite Humankind Physicians Destined Provision Modification Lustful Incidence Simple Food

Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“When you know too much information and you acquire it too easily, you tend to either use it in disagreeable ways, out of vanity, or you tend to be indiscriminate about it. I mean, in the old days, it was tricky, you had to go to various encyclopedias, you had to go to the library, maybe spend a day there, whatever. But in the end, if you found something, it was really exciting. Now you hit a couple of buttons and you get some information. Which, by the way, is almost always presented in that same goddamn mediocre style that characterizes the Internet for me. It is slightly deadening.”

“To be honest, when you're younger and cooler, you say those sort of things don't mean anything, but then on the day when they pat you on the back and they say, "Look, mate, we're noticing what you're doing-thanks very much;' you think of the people who spent a life in the cinema and didn't receive that kind of accolade, and it's sort of a humbling experience. And it's very nice and all that. But it doesn't change the way I do things.”

People Thinking Way Looks Kind Mean Nice Honest Thanks Being Honest Cinema Mates Very Nice Noticing Humbling Accolades Humbling Experiences

Author:Russell Crowe

“I compelled myself all through to write an exercise in verse, in a different form, every day of the year. I turned out my page every day, of some sort - I mean I didn't give a damn about the meaning, I just wanted to master the form - all the way from free verse, Walt Whitman, to the most elaborate of villanelles and ballad forms. Very good training. I've always told everybody who has ever come to me that I thought that was the first thing to do.”

Way Giving Writing Years Firsts Mean Different Wanted Form Masters Exercise Pages Training Very Good Damn Things To Do Verses Compelled Walt Ballads Days Of The Year Free Verse

Author:Conrad Aiken

“In the anarchist milieu, communism, individualism, collectivism, mutualism and all the intermediate and eclectic programmes are simply the ways considered best for achieving freedom and solidarity in economic life; the ways believed to correspond more closely with justice and freedom for the distribution of the means of production and the products of labour among men. Bakunin was an anarchist, and he was a collectivist, an outspoken enemy of communism because he saw in it the negation of freedom and, therefore, of human dignity.”

Source: Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta

“There's only one way to break the color line. Be good. I mean, play good. Play so good that they can't remember what color you were before the season started.”

Way Mean Play Remember Lines Break Color Seasons Be Good One Way

Book:Aaron

Source: Aaron

“My books have done extremely well, I know. But I don't honestly feel much different from when I began to write. I still think we have a long way to go. I suppose my name means more in Nigeria today than it did five years ago. But I feel the job that literature should do in our community has not even started. It's not yet part of the life of the nation. We are still at the beginning. It's a big beginning, because now we are catching the next generation in the schools. When I was their age, I had nothing to read that had any relevance to my own environment.”

Source: Conversations with Chinua Achebe

“You asked if I thought my fiction had changed anything in the culture and the answer is no. Sure, there's been some scandal, but people are scandalized all the time; it's a way of life for them. It doesn't mean a thing. If you ask if I want my fiction to change anything in the culture, the answer is still no. What I want is to possess my readers while they are reading my book if I can, to possess them in ways that other writers don't. Then let them return, just as they were, to a world where everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt, and control them.”

People Ifs World Way Want Mean Stills I Can Book Culture Reading Asks Answers Fiction Changed Return Reader Scandal

Book:Conversations with Philip Roth

Source: Conversations with Philip Roth

“The new "ambiguity" means, in a way adjudged favorable to literary, poetic, intellectually and psychologically well-devised and praiseworthily executed linguistic performance, uncertainty of meaning, or difficulty for the interpreter in identifying just what the meaning in question is: it means the old meanings of ambiguity with a difference. It means uncertainty of meaning (of a word or combination of words) purposefully incorporated in a literary composition for the attainment of the utmost possible variety of meaning-play compressible within the verbal limits of the composition.”

Way Wells Mean Play Differences Limits Performances Difficulty Variety Combination Uncertainty Poetic Composition Ambiguity Attainment Identifying Interpreter

Author:Laura Riding

“To me, God says, "I've given you this gift of grace, which means you don't earn your way to heaven. You don't work your way to heaven. You simply receive my gift."”

Way Mean Given Heaven Grace

Author:Rick Warren

“Painting is a means of saying something about one's self in a beautiful or powerful way that people would like to see, but not hear.”

People Way Mean Self Beautiful Powerful Silence Painting

Author:David Luiz

“Painting doesn't have a function, not in the way that music or film does... I mean, you can dance to music. Music can be used for a soundtrack, so it has a function in that sense, beyond itself. But painting doesn't... But I do believe that painting has a purpose.”

Way Believe Mean Doe Film Used Purpose Painting Function Soundtracks

Author:Peter Doig

“It means rock'n'roll in the sack. It means sex: the lyrics, the beat of it, the thunderous feeling through your body. Before the word groupie even existed I knew that I wanted to share myself with someone who created that music and turned me on in every kind of way.”

Way Kind Mean Feelings Body Wanted Sex Share Rocks Beats Your Body Rock N Roll Groupie

Author:Pamela Des Barres

“Meanwhile, however, what’s most bothersome about Pulp Fiction is its success. This is not to be mean-spirited about Tarantino himself; may he harvest all the available millions. But the way that this picture has been so widely ravened up and drooled over verges on the disgusting. Pulp Fiction nourishes, abets, cultural slumming.”

Way May Mean Has Beens Fiction Millions Available Disgusting Harvest Verge Spirited Pulp Tarantino Mean Spirited Abet

Book:Regarding Film: Criticism and Comment

Source: Regarding Film: Criticism and Comment

“Just because something has always been done a certain way does not necessarily mean it’s the best way, or the correct way, or the healthiest way for your horse, or your relationship with your horse, or your life.”

Way Mean Doe Done Certain Horse Best Way Our Relationship

Author:Joe Camp

“To think and to live missionally means seeing all life as a way to be engaged with the mission of God in the world.”

Thinking World Way Mean Seeing Missions Engaged

Book:Missional Renaissance: Changing the Scorecard for the Church

Source: Missional Renaissance: Changing the Scorecard for the Church

“In the Bible, shalom means universal flourishing, wholeness, and delight--a rich state of affairs in which natural needs are satisfied and natural gifts fruitfully employed, a state of affairs that inspires joyful wonder as its Creator and Savior opens doors and welcomes the creatures in whom he delights. Shalom, in other words, is the way things ought to be.”

Way Needs Mean States Natural Wonder Rich Doors Inspire Ought Creatures Universal Affair Delight Creator Satisfied Savior Joyful Wholeness Employed Flourishing Natural Gifts Shalom

Author:Cornelius Plantinga

“Do not be deceived by the way men of bad faith misuse words and names … Things are set up as contraries that are not even in the same category. Listen to me: the opposite of radical is superficial, the opposite of liberal is stingy; the opposite of conservative is destructive. Thus I will describe myself as a radical conservative liberal; but certain of the tainted red fish will swear that there can be no such fish as that. Beware of those who use words to mean their opposites. At the same time have pity on them, for usually this trick is their only stock in trade.”

“In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life. ...Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of effective communication between people.”

People Way Firsts Humans Mean Art Order Pleasure Failing Conditions Communication Art Is Cease Human Life Reflecting Fine Arts Effective Communication

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“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.”

Way Mean Doe Age Used Humanity Individual Understanding Growth Goes On Development Periods Activity Direct Guidance Excitement Reasonable Corresponding

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)

“The fact that you are not sure means that it is possible that there is another way someday.”

Way Mean Facts Not Sure Someday Another Way

Book:The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

Source: The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

“Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer a certain way; others in the thing itself which is said, by reason of its proving, or appearing to prove the point.”

Way Mean Said Reason Character Certain Three Prove Species Speakers Appearing Persuading

Book:Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric

Source: Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric

“Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of speech; for we do not, when influenced by pain or joy, or partiality or dislike, award our decisions in the same way; about which means of persuasion alone, I declare that the system-mongers of the present day busy themselves.”

Way Mean Has Beens States Pain Joy Decision Influence Speech Busy Mediums Excitement Awards Dislike Persuasion Present Day Partiality

Book:Treatise on Rhetoric: Literally Translated from the Greek

Source: Treatise on Rhetoric: Literally Translated from the Greek

“The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw your means of subsistence. I sometimes wonder how many people of talent are executed in this way every year.”

People Ifs Way Years Mean Sometimes Running Artist Wonder Talent Weapons Notion Starvation Bourgeoisie Subsistence

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“I always tell new people in show business. I say, "Look, show business pays you a lot of money, because eventually you're gonna get screwed. And when you get screwed, you will have this pile of money off to the side already." And they go, "OK, OK. OK, you ready? You ready?" "I got screwed." "You got the pile of money?" "Yeah, I'm fine." I mean, that's the way it works.”

People Way Looks Mean Shows Sides Pay Ready Fine Yeah Lots Of Money Show Business

Author:Jay Leno

“Success is in the student, not in the university; greatness is in the individual, not in the library; power is in the man, not in his crutches. A great man will make opportunities, even out of the commonest and meanest situations. If a man is not superior to his education, is not larger than his crutches or his helps, if he is not greater than the means of his culture, which are but the sign-boards pointing the way to success, he will never reach greatness. Not learning, not culture alone, not helps and opportunities, but personal power and sterling integrity, make a man great.”

“That's the nub of the thing, you see seriousness of spirit. It doesn't mean heaviness of heart, or a lack of fantasy, but it does mean an awareness of influences that touch our lives, sometimes in ways that seem cruel and unfeeling, and sometimes in ways that open up a glory which can never be forgotten.”

Way Heart Mean Doe Sometimes Seems Spirit Fantasy Our Lives Influence Awareness Glory Forgotten Seriousness Heaviness Unfeeling

Book:Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre

Source: Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre

“I imagine that as contemporary music goes on changing in the way that I'm changing it what will be done is to more and more completely liberate sounds from abstract ideas about them and more and more exactly to let them be physically uniquely themselves. This means for me: knowing more and more not what I think a sound is but what it actually is in all of its acoustical details and then letting this sound exist, itself, changing in a changing sonorous environment.”

Thinking Way Mean Ideas Done Sound Knowing Environment Imagine Goes On Details Contemporary Abstract Imagine That Contemporary Music Knowing More

Author:John Cage

“It is important to understand what I mean by semiosis. All dynamic action, or action of brute force, physical or psychical, either takes place between two subjects, whether they react equally upon each other, or one is agent and the other patient, entirely or partially, or at any rate is a resultant of such actions between pairs. But by "semiosis" I mean, on the contrary, an action, or influence, which is, or involves, a cooperation of three subjects, such as a sign, its object, and its interpretant, this tri-relative influence not being in any way resolvable into actions between pairs.”

Way Mean Two Important Action Three Force Influence Subjects Objects Patient Rate Contrary Agents Pairs Cooperation Relative Brutes Brute Force

Author:Charles Sanders Peirce

“My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations. My first law is: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to Bernard Shaw - which I don't mean to be taken literally, but as a general observation of the habit people have of attaching remarks to the nearest obvious speaker. Churchill, Wilde, Orson Welles and Alexander Woollcott are other useful figures upon whom to father remarks when you don't know who really said them.”

People Knows Way Firsts Mean Said Two Use Law Three Father Taken Doubt Figures Fields Habit Abuse Obvious Observation Speakers Quotations Toil Remarks When In Doubt Wilde Bernard Shaw Use And Abuse

Author:Nigel Rees

“I say: liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every one to break through all limits, or, more expressively, not to everyone is that a limit which is a limit for the rest. Consequently, do not tire yourself with toiling at the limits of others; enough if you tear down yours. He who overturns one of his limits may have shown others the way and the means; the overturning of their limits remains their affair.”

Ifs Way May Mean Done Enough Given Break Tears Limits Remains Affair Tire Anarchism Break Through Toiling

Author:Max Stirner