Being Mean Quotes - Page 2

• Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty.... Well-being means, finally, to drop one's Ego, to give up greed, to cease chasing after preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one's self in the act of being, not in having, preserving, coveting, using.

  Erich Fromm

  Giving Up, Mean, Self

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• I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

  Olympia Dukakis

  Important, Despair, Being Me

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean.

  Rebecca Stead

  Mean, Sometimes, Moments

  Rebecca Stead (2010). “When You Reach Me/First Light”, p.160, Wendy Lamb Books

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• It doesn't make you feel very good being mean and fierce; it is much nicer playing people who are kind and sweet.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Sweet, Mean, People

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• There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.

  Laura Ingraham

  Mean, Guy, Complaining

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• I stopped going to school in the middle of fourth grade. Everyone grows up with the peer pressure, and kids being mean to each other in school. I think that's such a horrible thing, but I never really dealt with it in a high school way.

  Hilary Duff

  Growing Up, School, Mean

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• I don't believe in being mean to anyone. I'm a really peaceful person. That's something I get from my family.

  Nick Carter

  Love, Peace, Believe

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And as Dad said to me, 'You can't always stop people from being mean. But you can stop them from making you mean.

  Mike Mason

  Dad, Mean, People

  Mike Mason (2009). “The Blue Umbrella: A Novel”, p.192, David C Cook

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• Giving honest and well-intended feedback is often confused with being mean. It's not mean; it's nice.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Confused, Nice, Mean

  Twitter post from Mar 26, 2017

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• Just because you’ve only been alive for fifteen years doesn’t mean you’re less anything except old. That’s all it means. It doesn’t mean you’re less experienced. It doesn’t mean you’re less intelligent. It doesn’t mean you’re less sensitive. It doesn’t mean you take things less seriously. It’s like, these are younger human beings, meaning don’t, because they’re only ten, start thinking that they don’t know what you’re talking about -because they do. Don’t leave people out in the cold, and don’t talk down to people -don’t. It never works out.

  Judd Nelson

  Mean, Thinking, Intelligent

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• Better be," Eve said. She mock-bit at his finger. "I could totally date somebody else, you know." "And I could rent out your room." "And I could put your game console on eBay." "Hey," Shane protested. "Now you're just being mean.

  Rachel Caine

  Mean, Ebay, Games

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• Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean. It's like how turning on a light makes you realize how dark the room had gotten. And the way you usually act, the things you would have normally done, are like these ghosts that everyone can see but pretends not to.

  Rebecca Stead

  Mean, Dark, Light

  Rebecca Stead (2010). “When You Reach Me/First Light”, p.160, Wendy Lamb Books

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• I love when I can reboot people when they are being mean to others.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Mean, People, I Can

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• To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

  Alfred Adler

  Powerful, Mean, Emotional

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• I don't mind what they say as long as they're not being mean.

  George Clooney

  Mean, Long, Mind

  "Talking dirty", www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2002.

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• The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Being Me, Life Is

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• I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean

  Tina Brown

  Mean, Trying, Being Me

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• Humans are powerful spiritual beings meant to create good on earth. This good isn't usually accomplished in bold actions, but in singular acts of kindness between people. It's the little things that count, because they are more spontaneous and show who you truly are.

  Dannion Brinkley

  Spiritual, Powerful, Kindness

  Dannion Brinkley, Paul Perry (2009). “Saved by the Light: The True Story of a Man Who Died Twice and the Profound Revelations He Received”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• One cannot ignore half of life for the purposes of science, and then claim that the results of science give a full and adequate picture of the meaning of life. All discussions of 'life' which begin with a description of man's place on a speck of matter in space, in an endless evolutionary scale, are bound to be half-measures, because they leave out most of the experiences which are important to use as human beings.

  Colin Wilson

  Men, Space, Giving

  "Religion and the Rebel". Book by Colin Wilson, p. 309, 1957.

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• What I can say is I think [Miley Cyrus] a fantastic artist. She's got a fantastic voice. I made a comment in the past that I really regret making because I never like being mean.

  Ed Sheeran

  Regret, Mean, Artist

  Source: in.askmen.com

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• In being meaning, you naturally find meaning in everything.

  John de Ruiter

  Being Me, Find Me

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• Is the very mechanism for the universe to come into being meaningless or unworkable or both unless the universe is guaranteed to produce life, consciousness and observership somewhere and for some little time in its history-to-be?

  John P. Wheeler III

  Life, Science, Littles

  "Other Worlds". Book by Paul Davies, 1980.

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• Fighting is spiritual. It appears to be physical from the layman's eyes. In my fights, I seemed to be angry and mad - all that stuff you saw me doing, the yelling and screaming and being mean in the ring - but I'm cool as a cucumber. I can hear everybody talking around me outside of the ring. I can see everybody. I know what is going on.

  Mike Tyson

  Spiritual, Mean, Eye

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• Nonviolence which to me is the glory of Hinduism, has been sought to be explained away by our people as being meant for the sanyasis only.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  People, Being Me, Glory

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• Once you say something, it stays said. I apologized to anyone who may have been hurt by what I said, and I really meant it. I am absolutely not interested in hurting anyone, or being mean or insensitive.

  Henry Rollins

  Hurt, Mean, May

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