Really Mean Quotes - Page 2

• The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. Each of us emerges from the preconsciousness of babyhood and simply finds himself here, in it, in the world. That experience alone astonishes some people. What is all this - what is the world? And what are we? From the beginning of humanity some have been under a compulsion to ask these questions, and have felt a craving for the answers. This is what is really meant by any such phrase as 'mankind's need for metaphysics.'

  Bryan Magee

  Philosophy, Real, Writing

  "Confessions of a Philosopher". Book by Bryan Magee, 1997.

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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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• Affirmative action was designed originally for "women and other minorities" but the phrase has become just another tortured euphemism. Female conscientiousness and eagerness to please have always made women good students and natural test takers. Jews have gloried in scholarship throughout the ages, and Asians of both sexes score so high on SATs and IQ tests that they regard affirmative action as an impediment. Affirmative action really means favoritism for blacks for the sake of racial peace, but the favor is pure chimera, and so, increasingly, is the peace.

  Florence King

  Sex, Mean, Race

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• Successful weight management really means a permanent change in lifestyle - and success in this arena provides that person with a great opportunity to model that behavior for friends and family.

  Francis Collins

  Life Changing, Mean, Successful

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• Glory belongs to God, of course; that's what the word really means. And you can't serve God with a gun.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Mean, Gun, Glory

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.695, Macmillan

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• Space really means the level of awareness or presence, not thinking. So, can you look at your partner and not think? Two conscious beings realize that the essence of the relationship is the space in it. Even when there is an egoic overlay, it is not too dense or heavy for you to sense the essence underneath it. You don't need to react to the egoic overlay. When you don't react to it you don't strengthen it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Thinking, Essence

  Source: jhaines6.wordpress.com

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• My father was a minister for 50 years with Pentecostal Church of God in Christ. We prayed about everything, every day, then he always said, "Amen. God is love." I thought God is love was one word. Like "Godislove." And it took me a long time to learn what that really meant.

  Denzel Washington

  Father, Years, Long

  "‘The Book of Eli’: Interview with Denzel Washington, Mila Kunis, and Gary Oldman". Roundtable discussions, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Everything is this distorted mishmash of pop culture that pulls from this era and that era and is just thrown at the wall. These people have no clue what anything really means. There are guys out there getting a million hits for a video.

  Willis Earl Beal

  Wall, Mean, People

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 20, 2013.

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• The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Equality, Men, Knowing

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• We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat when we really mean he is outstanding.

  Eleanor Robson Belmont

  Music, Art, Mean

  Eleanor Robson Belmont (1957). “The Fabric of Memory”

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• I guess if I looked at it from an athletic standpoint, I don't really need to win another Tour. Seven Tours for me was a dream, six broke the record, so that eight doesn't really mean much.

  Lance Armstrong

  Dream, Mean, Winning

  "Lance Armstrong: I'm cycling to take cancer message worldwide". Interview with Kiran Chetry, www.cnn.com. September 24, 2008.

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• When people are talking about cyber weapons, digital weapons, what they really mean is a malicious program that's used for a military purpose. A cyber weapon could be something as simple as an old virus from 1995 that just happens to still be effective if you use it for that purpose.

  Edward Snowden

  Military, Mean, Simple

  "Exclusive: Edward Snowden on Cyber Warfare". Interview with James Bamford and Tim De Chant, www.pbs.org. January 8, 2015.

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• The difference between trying to be fit and not being fit really means the difference between life and death.

  Bruce Willis

  Mean, Differences, Life And Death

  Source: collider.com

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• Libertarians are believers in small government who really mean it -- no excuses, no exceptions. [For Libertarians], the excesses of government are their best recruiters.

  Richard Brookhiser

  Mean, Government, Excess

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• It somehow became an article of faith on the right that Obama is the most extreme president in American history. Although, when they say that, I think what they really mean is...he's black.

  Bill Maher

  Mean, Thinking, Black

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• Of course, I loved the Spice Girls. I loved Geri and Baby, but who liked Posh Spice? They said I looked like her and I said, 'That’s not cool, that’s really mean.’

  Cara Delevingne

  Girl, Baby, Mean

  "Burberry Model Cara Delevingne is too posh to play Posh Spice in Spice Girls musical" by Richard Eden, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 26, 2011.

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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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• 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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• I'm incredibly proud to have been nominated in the past and it really means a lot to me because I do work very hard when I'm making a film and I do really do absolutely give my all. To get that kind of pat on the back, it's really amazing and also never something that I anticipated would possibly happen to me, ever. So I am very, very proud to have been there before. And, you know, the nice thing about nominations is that, same as awards, no one can actually take them away from you and I'm proud of that.

  Kate Winslet

  Nice, Mean, Past

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think that we live in a moment in time where people have a lot of information about a lot of people kind of instantly, but it's all sort of surface information and it doesn't really mean anything.

  Jon Hamm

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, Antonio Banderas and Ryan Seacrest Interview SHREK FOREVER AFTER". Press conference, collider.com. May 19, 2010.

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• When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.

  Reggie Jackson

  Sports, Zero, Mean

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• What I really mean is that actors do the interview process because they have to. It's a good bargain: If I can do this part then I'll sell it. I just wish it wasn't me who had to do it because it feels very unnatural.

  Kristen Stewart

  Mean, Wish, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Period films to me are very often alienating to the audience. There's very often a formality. A staunchy quality to them that comes from the misenscene. It also comes from the performances of the actors, because they're acting Victorian which really means that they're just acting the way they've seen previous actors act Victorian.

  Christopher Nolan

  Mean, Acting, Quality

  Source: www.movieweb.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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