Mean Quotes - Page 32

• Having the best product means nothing if the people won't buy it.

  Donald A. Norman

  Business, People, Products

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• I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Use, Weapons

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• We Wanted to be Achievers, But Being an Achievers didn't Mean That You Stopped Being a Woman.

  Peggy Fleming

  Achievement, Being A Woman, Wanted

  Peggy Fleming, Peter Kaminsky (2000). “The Long Program: Skating Toward Life's Victories”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• The Devil hinders me. You know I say
  Just what I think, and nothing more nor less,
  And, when I pray, my heart is in my prayer.
  I cannot say one thing and mean another.
  If I can't pray, I will not make believe!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Thinking, Sincerity, Knows

  "Selected Poems".

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• The Benson and Hedges Cup was won by McEnroe ... he was as charming as always, which means that he was as charming as a dead mouse in a loaf of bread.

  Clive James

  Tennis, Bread, Cups

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• To beat Federer 3 times does not mean anything he is a genius whose hair does not even move when he plays.

  Guillermo Canas

  Moving, Hair, Play

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• I mean I'm talking about playing games, about imagining other people, and it's part of the way that it helps you actually see the world.

  Simon McBurney

  Playing Games, Talking, People

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• When you make something, if you are a painter or a writer, a degree, or a sculptor or whatever or a musician, a degree of energy is required to make it, and I'm not sure that it is always aggressive, but when you have a great deal of energy it can appear to be more aggressive than it is. In fact, I mean you can talk about a waterfall being aggressive, but in fact it is just a very powerful forward movement of energy, and although I think sometimes my engine house is a kind of anger.

  Simon McBurney

  Powerful, Thinking, House

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• Too much of what passes for design now is theater. It's one thing to be eccentric- and by the way, most eccentrics tend to be rather well-educated people - and quite another to be a faddist, by which I mean someone who tries to conjure a totally foreign aesthetic in a misplaced environment.

  Albert Hadley

  People, Design, Trying

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• Always have one possibility in mind and that is to go to the top, to be the best. Everything else should just be a means to that end.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspiring, Achievement, Mind

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• The rhythm of the water, the sunset over the horizon, and the freedom of the ocean reminds me of how simply beautiful life can be. When you move too fast you can miss the things that mean the most. My love for th ocean reminds me of my love for the snow, and my love for life. So enjoy all that life has to offer.

  Tara Dakides

  Beautiful, Ocean, Moving

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• Peeping through my keyhold I see within the range of only about 30 percent of the light that comes from the sun; the rest is infrared and some little ultraviolet, perfectly apparent to many animals, but invisible to me. A nightmare network of ganglia, charged and firing without my knowledge, cuts and splices what I see, editing it for my brain. Donald E. Carr points out that the sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brian: 'This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is.

  Annie Dillard

  Cutting, Animal, Light

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• I have the greatest husband. The baby is my main focus right now. We're both so excited. I mean, this is definitely the happiest moment in my life.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Baby, Husband, Focus

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• My position now, especially in this town, adds an element of skepticism with people you meet - especially girls. I mean, it becomes a lot more difficult.

  Jason Biggs

  Girl, People, Elements

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• I am going in now for interior decoration. By that I mean supplying objets d'art and giving advice regarding the decoration of their houses to wealthy persons who do not have the time, inclination, nor culture to do such work for themselves. It is nothing new. Women have done the same thing before.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Art, Giving, House

  Penny Sparke, Elsie De Wolfe (2005). “Elsie De Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration”, Acanthus PressLlc

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• Sometimes falling in love may look like pure madness to those not experiencing it but that's only because they're not involved. Just because other people don't understand your feelings doesn't mean they're not real or they're not important. You have to trust yourself. Feel what you feel and don't worry about anyone else. Love is about you and your significant other, remember that.

  Willa Cather

  Falling In Love, Real, Romantic Love

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• Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.

  James Stockdale

  Commitment, Doe, Followers

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• Religion, in India, means realisation and nothing short of that.

  Swami Vivekananda

  India, Importance, Realisation

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1279, Manonmani Publishers

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• Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hope, Long, Matter

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• I don't think you understand what levels or what fears until you have a child of your own. I mean, I've never loved someone so much and I've never been so afraid in my life. And the truth is I would kill someone, whoever tried to hurt him. I would. I have no doubt about it.

  Maria Bello

  Hurt, Children, Thinking

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

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• Steadman! Any guy that's got Oprah as a girlfriend, I mean that's a good dude. I want to talk to him.

  Billy Bush

  Girlfriend, Guy, Want

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

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• Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.

  A. J. McLean

  Girlfriend, Fans, Want

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• Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against his will, whose notion of Beauty always differs from yours and whose means (strength, imagination, technique) are often too limited to help you effectively! What torment, to have your thinking and your phantasy tied down by another person!

  Alexander Alekhine

  Thinking, Imagination, Opponents

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• Chess is a good way to learn, to keep your brain fit and the ego in check, a mental form of your local gymnasium. Those who see chess merely as a means of self-proof make the game experience uncomfortable and drive many of the better, more sensitive brains to analysis, correspondence, problems, studies and the like.

  Peter Abelard

  Self, Games, Ego

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• Successful living does not mean accumulating material things, it means inner peace of mind; it means that gift of being able to adjust oneself to everyone else; it also means that all your needs for daily living will be taken care of by God.

  Albert E Cliffe

  Life, Taken, Successful

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