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“There is something magical about that green coat. I mean that sincerely. It's a very special week, and being able to wear that green jacket. It's made my whole career. It's special.”

Mean Made Whole Able Careers Week Special Green Coats Sincerely Jackets

Author:Fuzzy Zoeller

“I want to have enough space to, I don't know, think thoughts. I mean, I just - I don't know that I'm capable of having an exciting, profound thought every week that's worth a column.”

Thinking Knows Want Mean Enough Space Week Capable Exciting Profound Columns Profound Thoughts

Author:David Plotz

“Work - get paid; don't work - don't get paid. Everybody is on commission, .. Try not coming to work for six weeks. Work gets paid; don't work, don't get paid. When they earn those dollars, and when you're 4, and you clean up your room, it really means mom cleaned up the room and you did two toys. When you're 14, it means you cleaned up your room. But still, we got the money caused by work, and then, we have teachable moments on how to handle the money they earn.”

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Author:Dave Ramsey

“I've done roles before where I've wanted to be buff and sort of fit or whatever. And I like to try and be a little bit fit because there's usually one scene in a movie where you've got to run, which means you've got to run for about five hours nonstop. So, for me, it's just worthwhile being fit because doing a movie can be kind of grueling for six, seven, eight weeks. Or 12 weeks.”

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Author:Guy Pearce

“I think the hard thing about this job [stand-up] I mean, I think this part is great but that the traveling is y'know, 'cause 'cause I'm gone a lot from home and this time I'm out for three-and-a-half weeks without going home, and that's hard, to be gone three-and-a-half weeks 'cause then I have to ask my friends, "Would you mind going to the house and watering the plants, and turn some lights on and make it look like somebody's home, and make sure that the mobile over the crib isn't tangled or the baby's gonna get bored.”

Thinking Knows Mind Looks Mean Hard Home Light Jobs Turns Three Asks House Causes Half Gone Week Baby My Friends Plant Bored Mobile Hard Things Tangled Going Home

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“The kind of love my mum talks about is full of worry and work and forgiving people and putting up with things and stuff like that. It's not a lot of fun, that's for sure. If that really is love, the kind my mum talks about, then nobody can ever know if they love somebody, can they? It seems like what she's saying is, if you're pretty sure you love somebody, the way I was sure in those few weeks, then you can't love them, because that isn't what love is. Trying to understand what she means by love would do your head in.”

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Author:Nick Hornby

“I get guilty when I spend money on silly things like clothes and stuff. Having experienced a completely different extreme of wealth, and I don't mean me being poor or rich, I mean knowing that 40 quid that gets spent on a pair of shoes could go a long way for a family in Georgia for a week or even a month, having experienced that, you're a bit more [guilty].”

Way Mean Long Different Stuff Bits Wealth Poor Knowing Rich Week Months Clothes Shoes Extremes Silly Guilty Pairs Long Way Georgia Pair Of Shoes Silly Things

Author:Katie Melua

“Know what the difference between hitting .250 and .300 is? It's 25 hits - 25 hits in 500 at-bats is 50 points. There's six months in a season, that's about 25 weeks. That means if you get just one extra flare a week - just one - you get a ground ball with eyes, you get a dying quail, just one more dying quail a week ... and you're in Yankee Stadium.”

Ifs Knows Mean Eye Differences Week Dying Months Six Seasons Balls Extras Just One Hitting Bats Six Months Yankees Stadiums Flare Yankee Stadium Quails

Author:Crash Davis

“I was struggling at Rookie Camp to be quite honest with you. Basically, it was a week of being locked down like in jail for me. I would say about 50 percent of it was useful. The most challenging part of it was off the court. I mean, man we were just sitting there at times. We had meetings from about 10 a.m. in the morning to about 10 at night and you can't get a workout in at all.”

Men Mean Night Sports Challenges Morning Struggle Week Honest Percent Sitting Court Meetings Jail Camps Locked Workout Rookies Mean Man

Author:Andrew Bogut

“What this means is that the first week of every new series of ads will continue to yield softer results than you can expect to see in weeks two and three.”

Firsts Mean Two Three Results Economy Week Series Yield Ads

Author:Roy H. Williams

“Not a week goes by without my learning something new about golf. That means, of course, that I was ignorant of eight things about golf two months ago. Extend that process back nearly twenty years and the result is an impressive accumulation of ignorance.”

Years Mean Two Courses Process Results Week Ignorance Months Twenties Golf Eight Ignorant Something New Impressive Accumulation Two Months Learning Something New

Book:The World of Golf: The Best of Peter Dobereiner

Source: The World of Golf: The Best of Peter Dobereiner

“In the theater you rehearse for a minimum of five to six weeks. And then you get to play it. Which means you get to get better. That's the great thing about the theater.”

Mean Play Five Week Six Theater Great Things Get Better Minimum

Author:Christopher Walken

“Over the years, many executives have said to me with pride: 'Boy, I worked so hard last year that I didn't take any vacation.' I always feel like responding, "You dummy. You mean to tell me you can take responsibility for an eighty-million-dollar project and you can't plan two weeks out of the year to have some fun?”

“Im not the kind of actor that can go completely cold into an emotional scene. I have to transport myself emotionally by whatever means possible, and that basically means you carry the situation with you all week, all episode or all day beforehand.”

Kind Mean Actors Situation Week Emotional Cold Scene Episodes Transport

Author:Jamie Bamber

“I'm less confident now than I've ever been. In this peculiar craft, confidence is something you spend a lifetime losing. I used to be frightened only one night a week but now I'm frightened of every performance. I mean really frightened.”

Mean Used Night Actors Week Losing Performances Lifetime Used To Be Crafts Frightened Peculiar One Night

Author:Glenda Jackson

“In episodic television you'll have a good guy who's on every week and that's his show! He's the regular on it, and you're not going to be "gooder" than he is; I mean, he's the guy who's got to solve your problem! So if you're playing a good guy, you have to have a problem, and he's going to solve it for you. And the only really strong dramatic part is the heavy, because the meaner and crueler and rottener you are, the better the good guy looks when he whips ya' at the end because he always is gonna whip ya! So, the best dramatic guest shot is the heavy.”

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Author:Leslie Nielsen

“The young cast that's coming in now, Dylan Sprayberry and Khylin Rhambo, they're great! Dylan Sprayberry came out to surf with me a couple of weeks ago and he's such a good kid and he's a kid! I mean he's 16 years old, and you forget the energy and the dynamics and the mindset of a real 16-year-old. It's just beautiful! It's limitless energy and just a whole different kettle of fish. I think that they're a great addition to the show.”

Thinking Years Mean Different Real Whole Shows Kids Beautiful Young Energy Forget Week Couple Casts Fishes Mindset Dylan Limitless Surf Dynamics Kettles

Author:Linden Ashby

“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

“I mean, the job is Pearl Harbor. And you better not spends weeks and weeks and weeks trying to assign blame or deciding on a complete plan for fighting the whole war, you know, and letting a committee decide where the battleships should go and all of that. You better spring into action with the best people you have.”

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Author:Howard Warren Buffett

“When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would be only oil and olives. What I meant was that our people have the necessary patience to endure the current difficult situation. Palestinians would rather do without certain food items than their national rights.”

People Ifs Mean Said Would Be Certain Difficult Situation Rights Week Patience Cooking Endure Currents Oil Palestinian Items Olives Difficult Situations

Author:Ismail Haniyeh

“It makes little sense to spend a month teaching decimal fractions to fourth-grade pupils when they can be taught in a week, and better understood and retained, by sixth-grade students. Child-centeredness does not mean lack of rigor or standards; it does mean finding the best match between curricula and children's developing interests and abilities.”

Source: TIES THAT STRESS

“Over in Afghanistan, Osama stuck his head out of the cave and saw a shadow. So, that means six more weeks of bombing.”

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Author:David Letterman

“Donald Trump announced today he is running for president of the United States. Traditionally that means six more weeks of comedy.”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.”

People Looks Mean Week Six

Author:Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

“The American economy is going to do fine. But it won't do fine every year and every week and every month. I mean, if you don't believe that, forget about buying stocks anyway... It's a positive-sum game, long term. And the only way an investor can get killed is by high fees or by trying to outsmart the market.”

Ifs Way Trying Years Believe Mean Long Games Term Forget Economy Week Fine Months Don't Believe Investing Long Term Buying Investors Fees American Economy Buying Stocks

Author:Warren Buffett

“The thing about Vegas is, I don't have to fly anywhere, and that really helps. It means I stay in one place for three weeks at a time instead of flying backwards and forwards.”

Mean Helping Three Week Flying Backwards Vegas

Author:Elton John

“I mean, they call it Stockholm Syndrome and post traumatic stress disorder. And, you know, I had no free will. I had virtually no free will until I was separated from them for about two weeks.”

Knows Mean Two Week Stress Posts Free Will Disorder Two Weeks Syndromes Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Stockholm Stockholm Syndrome

Author:Patty Hearst

“Exercise is an absolute must. Period. That doesn't mean I'm a gym junkie - it just means that I have to get a few days doing something physical a week, even just for my mental sanity.”

Mean Week Periods Exercise Absolutes Gym Sanity Junkie

Author:Matthew Hussey

“In the summer of 2002, we had spent six weeks shooting the three pilots of Mythbusters, and Jamie[Hyneman] called me up afterward - well, first he called me up to tell me to clear my crap back out of his shop - and he said, "Well, that was kind of fun, wasn't it? I mean, I don't see where this could go, because we pretty much did everything. But it was fun."”

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Author:Adam Savage

“Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.”

People Looks Mean Week Example Six

Author:Richard Cecil

“When you spend many hours a week working with the same people - I mean television operates on really amazing hours and the gift of that is the trust that you feel and the intimacy that you feel with the people who you're working with.”

People Feels Mean Hours Week Television Intimacy Really Amazing

Author:Holly Hunter

“We have got to change the political culture in America. We need a political revolution. That means we are working on politics not just three weeks before an election but 365 days a year.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“In some parts of the world, what you are doing is already apparent.According to the World Health Organization, the warming of the planet caused an additional 140,000 deaths in 2004, as compared with the number of deaths there would have been had average global temperatures remained as they were during the period 1961 to 1990. This means that climate change is already causing, every week, as many deaths as occured in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.”

“Translator Dlique was saying, very earnestly, “Eggs are so inadequate, don't you think? I mean, they ought to be able to become anything, but instead you always get a chicken. Or a duck. Or whatever they're programmed to be. You never get anything interesting, like regret, or the middle of the night last week.”

Thinking Mean Able Lasts Night Interesting Week Middle Regret Ought Eggs Chickens Be You Ducks Inadequate Middle Of The Night Translators

Author:Ann Leckie

“Realistically, there is a danger, of course, when you're going into someone's living room as the same guy every week. But I don't fear it because, I mean, there's really nothing I can do about it. I can try to combat it through the work, and maybe make sure I don't do Sheldon 2.0 in any other projects. But it's just really hard for me to find any negative side effects from this experience.”

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Author:Jim Parsons

“Comedy is very interesting because you can very quickly cross into dangerous territory. I mean look at what happened, unfortunately, (in) Paris a couple of weeks ago. They were making comics - which were really satire - but it offended people. I'm not saying the reaction was justified but there's definitely a line when you're doing comedy or satire and how it might affect somebody. That's the thing you have to watch and I think you have to be respectful of it.”

“The movie industry places such importance on first-week numbers-which means what to people, I don't know. It's very strange. They hope to sell tons of records the first week, and then what?”

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Author:Brendan Benson

“Now is the time to become a disciple of Jesus Christ, which means accepting His invitation to 'come, follow me' (Luke 18:22). This is the decision we made in our premortal lives. Now we must make it again here in mortality, every day, in every situation by taking the Savior's name upon us, remembering His atoning sacrifice, and keeping His commandments. This we covenanted to do when we were baptized, and we have the opportunity to renew those covenants each week as we partake of the sacrament.”

“People who believe in 'universal health care' show remarkably little interest - usually none - in finding out what that phrase turns out to mean in practice, in those countries where it already exists, such as Britain, Sweden or Canada. For one thing, 'universal health care' in these countries means months of waiting for surgery that Americans get in a matter of weeks or even days.”

“55% of all Americans lose their remote control 5 times a week. That means that they must see the same show for up to 3-4 minutes a time!”

Mean Shows Loses Week Minutes Remote Control

Author:Jay Leno

“I tell ya, my wife, we get along good cause we have our own arrangement. I mean, one night a week I go out with the boys and one night a week, she goes out with the boys.”

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Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“I mean I feel like we've shot all these different movies. Like the first 2 weeks of shooting was all Steve Stills apartment and band rehearsal, you know? And so it was like this tiny little group of people and small set comparatively and it just looked like a Toronto apartment. And then we sort of kept ramping up further and further until now we're here in this giant like craziest set I've ever seen with LCD crazy lights that go....you know?”

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Author:Alison Pill

“The biggest lesson has been the importance of constantly repeating the mission. It means bringing the team together every week to talk about all of our projects, progress, and vision.”

Mean Has Beens Together Vision Progress Week Team Lessons Projects Importance Missions

Author:David Karp

“To tell the people in the West not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for weeks and weeks nor have a way of getting a sick person to a doctor.”

People Way May Mean Persons Soul Use Week Car Doctors Sick West Sick Person

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Just because there are celebrities in a movie, it doesn't mean anything. I don't think The Ant Bully did all that well the first week at the box office. Compare the movies that have a lot of celebrities with the Jimmy Neutron movie, which had no celebrity voices and grossed almost one hundred million dollars.”

Thinking Firsts Wells Mean Voice Millions Week Office Hundred Dollars Boxes Compare Bully Ants Million Dollars Jimmy Box Office Neutrons

Author:Rob Paulsen

“Well, I, you know, I think at PIMCO we always try and be open with the press and the public. I mean, isn't that what voters want from their politicians? Mohamed El-Erian, our CEO, writes several op-eds a week.”

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Author:Bill Gross

“When you are doing seven shows a week, you have to take care of yourself. There are some moments when you cannot allow yourself to emotionally reenact the issue you're talking about or the experience that you're remembering. I mean that would kill you, you know. To experience a thing, a trauma, every single night, it would probably kill you emotionally.”

Knows Mean Moments Shows Care Remember Night Talking Issues Week Seven Trauma Take Care Take Care Of Yourself

Author:Staceyann Chin

“Sometimes I'm writing for magazines on assignment, but the university has to be patient with me. I mean, during the ten-week periods that I have a class, I'm there every Thursday night or whatever it is, but sometimes that's all I'm there, because I'm somewhere else the rest of the time.”

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Author:Pam Houston

“Why even live? If that's your goal, if you're just clamoring your way to the top, I mean, why even have a life? Somebody was telling me the other day about the lives of investment bankers who work ninety hours a week and how it affects their patterns of consumption.”

Ifs Way Mean Goal Hours Week Investment Patterns Consumption Ninety Bankers

Author:Larkin Grimm

“I tend to work most often from the method of ignoring any ritualistic writing for long periods of time, and then I'll spend three straight weeks writing for 12 hours a day and just going through the motions with my worldly business because the compulsion to write descends upon me like a kind of madness. I don't mean to be dramatic, but it feels that way when it strikes.”

Way Feels Writing Kind Mean Long Three Hours Week Periods Madness Method Strikes Dramatic Worldly Compulsion Long Periods Of Time

Author:Kevin Keck

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