Really Mean Quotes

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  If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

  Andy Rooney

  Love, Happiness, Smile

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• If someone tells you, "You can't" they really mean, "I can't."

  Sean Stephenson

  Positive Thinking, Mean, Positivity

  FaceBook post by Sean Stephenson from Mar 20, 2011

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• Executives will talk about the importance of passion, but what they really mean is finding somebody who will work nights and weekends on their assigned task but predictably and reliably follow orders and just work harder.

  John Hagel

  Hard Work, Passion, Mean

  "Only Passion Can Transform Stress Into Success" by John Hagel, bigthink.com.

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• I don't know where "bro country" came from or what it really means, but a lot of those guys are my buddies and I ­support their music. Within ­country there are lots of styles: stone-cold country, like Brandy Clark, and there's Florida Georgia Line with what they do, which is completely different and bringing a whole new audience. There's room for everyone.

  Miranda Lambert

  Music, Country, Mean

  "ACM Queen Miranda Lambert Dishes on Her Good-Luck Charm for the Big Night and the Bro-Country Trend: 'There's Room for Everyone'". Interview with Chuck Arnold, www.billboard.com. April 13, 2015.

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• Your personal freedom to experience yourself and life as you wish is not being limited. Step into your choices and stop telling yourself that you can't, when what you really mean is that you don't want other people to feel the way you think that are going to feel when they see you making the choices you really want to make.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Freedom, Mean, Thinking

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• That it does not matter what a man believes is a statement heard on every side today. ... What he believes tells him what the world is for. How can men who disagree about what the world is for agree about any of the minutiae of daily conduct? The statement really means that it does not matter what a man believes so long as he does not take his beliefs seriously.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Believe, Mean, Men

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.22, University of Chicago Press

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• We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR Course.

  Will Rogers

  Mean, Law, Courses

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• Education is 'the guardian genius of our democracy.' Nothing really means more to our future, not our military defenses, not our missiles or our bombers, not our production economy, not even our democratic system of government. For all of these are worthless if we lack the brain power to support and sustain them.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Military, Mean

  Remarks on the Message on Education, January 12, 1965.

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• Good colour really means good taste; and 'powerful' colour means a reserve, to give a climax its full force, and not 'red, white, and blue all over.

  John F. Carlson

  Powerful, Mean, Blue

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• After a certain period of time, when I had acquired more insight into the Fuehrer's personality, I gave him my hand and said: "I unite my fate with yours for better or for worse: I dedicate myself to you in good times and in bad, even unto death." I really meant it-and still do.

  Hermann Goring

  Fate, Hands, Personality

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• 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.

  Dave Ramsey

  Mom, Mean, Two

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• Humanly speaking, it is possible to understand the Sermon on the Mount in a thousand different ways. But Jesus knows only one possibility: simple surrender and obedience - not interpreting or applying it, but doing and obeying it. That is the only way to hear his words. He does not mean for us to discuss it as an ideal. He really means for us to get on with it.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Mean, Simple

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• It's important to me to say what I really mean.

  Christopher Reeve

  Mean, Important, Importance

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• The word "prodigy" was thrown around a lot, but I didn't understand what that meant, or the weight of it. It didn't really mean anything to me, until I was older and could look back on it.

  Misty Copeland

  Mean, Looks, Weight

  Source: collider.com

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• New socialize by insulting each other, but don`t really mean it. Woman socialize by complimenting each other but don`t really mean it

  Granger Smith

  Girl, Country, Mean

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• We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.

  Paul Valery

  Hate, Mean, Self

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• Work should never make me weary If I'm really meant to do it, But it soon becomes exhausting If it's greed that drives me to it.

  Rebecca McCann

  Work, Greed, Should

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• I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into.

  Caleb Landry Jones

  Heart, Eye, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I move from being a cameraman to being a director I looked at a lot of other cameramen who tried to make the move. And in each case they moved up their camera operator to be the DP, which really meant they didn't want to give up being the DP, and really wanted to do both. And my feeling was if I was going to succeed as a director, I had to just be a director and give up the safety net of being a cameraman.

  Barry Sonnenfeld

  Giving Up, Moving, Safety

  Source: collider.com

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• Everyone has the attitude that movies aren't just disposable entertainment - they can really mean something. I love that, because that's the way I feel about films.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Attitude, Mean, Way

  Interview with Amy Kaufman, www.thewrap.com. October 7, 2010.

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• It can't be any new note. When you look at the keyboard, all the notes are there already. But if you mean a note enough, it will sound different. You got to pick the notes you really mean!

  Thelonious Monk

  Mean, Sound, Different

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• It is a truism to say that a good experiment is precisely that which spares us the exertion of thinking: the better it is, the less we have to worry about its interpretation, about what it really means.

  Peter Medawar

  Mean, Thinking, Worry

  Peter Brian Medawar (1969). “Induction and intuition in scientific thought”

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• The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value. Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mistake, Mean, Facts

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• Klout and various measurements of influence are fun. I love to see where I score on them, but there's a computer algorithm behind the calculation. If there's an algorithm, it can be gamed. Even if it's not gameable, you have to take a leap of faith that the number of followers, retweets, mentions, whatever really mean something.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Fun, Mean, Numbers

  Source: blog.bazaarvoice.com

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• I don't like working by a monitor. I stand right next to the camera, and I'm very performance-oriented. That really means everything to me, whether it's doing an improv of a joke or an emotional scene, and everything in between.

  Drew Barrymore

  Mean, Emotional, Cameras

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. October 1, 2009.

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