Really Mean Quotes

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

  Andy Rooney

  Love, Happiness, Smile

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• [I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work, the first inspiration for so many mathematicians of my generation, and learnt for the first time as I read it what mathematics really meant.

  G. H. Hardy

  Inspiration, Science, Firsts

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• It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line really means' - it's like a light going on.

  Richard McCabe

  Mean, Thinking, Light

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• What do teachers and curriculum directors mean by 'value' reading? A look at the practice of most schools suggests that when a school 'values' reading what it really means is that the school intensely focuses on raising state-mandated reading test scores- the kind of reading our students will rarely, if ever, do in adulthood.

  Kelly Gallagher

  Teacher, Reading, Mean

  Kelly Gallagher, Richard L. Allington (2009). “Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and what You Can Do about it”, p.7, Stenhouse Publishers

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• I was on the set of 'Braveheart' and my mate says to me, 'Do you think this film will be any good?' And I really meant this, too, I told him 'Let me put it this way - It won't win any awards.' Cut to: five Oscars.

  Peter Mullan

  Cutting, Winning, Thinking

  "NEDS’ Director Peter Mullan Almost Helmed ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’ (Until He Botched The Pitch)". Interview with Christopher Bell, www.indiewire.com. April 27, 2011.

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• I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the North and the South and the Civil War; I really mean just politically.

  James Spader

  War, Mean, Thinking

  "James Spader, ‘Lincoln’ Star, On How The Film Can Guide Barack Obama" by Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2012.

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• In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

  Barack Obama

  Country, War, Mean

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• I can be all pissed off at the oppression of the state, but what does that really mean? Well, it's the tacit consent of a public.

  Cecily McMillan

  Mean, Pissed Off, Doe

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• But what really is immorality? And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?

  Nancy Garden

  Mean, Helping Someone, Doe

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• I was going to make movies. I was the one in the family who was always rolling the video camera, making movies of my brothers around town, and then screening them for my parents. I still would love to make movies someday that's something that really means a lot to me, and I know I'll have the chance to do it one day.

  Joe Jonas

  Brother, Mean, Parent

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• Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mistake, Mean, Making Mistakes

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.22, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Only we big sinners have this grace of knowing what salvation really means.

  Pope Francis

  Mean, Knowing, Grace

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• What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do.

  Julia Cameron

  Money, Want, Useful Life

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Nov 13, 2013

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• Academic freedom really means freedom of inquiry. To be able to probe according to one's own interest, knowledge and conscience is the most important freedom the scholar has, and part of that process is to state its results.

  Donald Kennedy

  Mean, Academic Freedom, Important

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• To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.

  Cornel West

  Mean, Intellectual, Suffering

  Cornel West (1999). “The Cornel West Reader”, p.551, Basic Books

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• We often say 'love' when we really mean, and are acting out, an addiction-a sterile, ingrown dependency relationship, with another person serving as the object of our need for security.

  Stanton Peele

  Mean, Addiction, Acting

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• Every form of communication is for the purpose of feeling, experiencing, sharing. Everyone has their own intense journey through life, and you don't want to do it all alone. It's really meaningful to be able to share with people. Whether it's your political beliefs, or what goes on for you emotionally, or keeping track of history.

  Mirah

  Meaningful, Communication, Journey

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I really like trying to find the roles that are actually really meaningful to me.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Meaningful, Trying, Roles

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My wife and I just started listening to the late Beethoven Quartets together, an activity I recommend for all married couples, but that doesn't really mean that I'm finished reading.

  Clive James

  Couple, Reading, Mean

  "Clive James: life through the prism of illness". "PM" with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. August 21, 2015.

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• The general advertisers and their agencies know almost nothing for sure, because they cannot measure the results of their advertising. They worship at the altar of creativity, which really means 'originality': The most dangerous word in the lexicon of advertising

  David Ogilvy

  Mean, Creativity, Agency

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• Forget land, buildings, or machines-the real source of wealth today is intelligence, applied intelligence. We talk glibly of "intellectual property" without taking on board what it really means. It isn't just patent rights and brand names; it is the brains of the place.

  Charles Handy

  Real, Mean, Land

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• After you have made your commitment to say no to what no longer serves you, you will probably be invited to demonstrate that you really mean it.

  Alan Cohen

  Commitment, Mean, Made

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• Never exaggerate. Never say more than you really mean.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean

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• When you say Sharia, even to a Muslim, it's understood in vastly different ways, in many ways it's part of an identity and most Muslims when they talk about wanting Sharia to play a role in their lives really mean it in so far as it talks about family law, you know, issues like, as I said marriage, divorce.

  Mark Durie

  Mean, Divorce, Law

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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