Really Mean Quotes - Page 7

• Basically my point of view on unicorns is that private companies which have sky high valuations, it doesn't really mean anything in the real world until it's marked to market. And there's only two ways things get marked to market in venture capital: Either a company is acquired by another company for cash or marketable security, or it goes public, and then it has reporting requirements and then the market will determine the value.

  Kevin Kinsella

  Real, Mean, Views

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• The No. 1 question I get is, "Do you believe in an open-borders policy?" I'm like, wait a second: What does that really mean? When you say open-borders policy, do you mean that - this is like the US-Mexico border? We put up a sign that says "Keep Out," then 10 yards in we say, "Job Wanted." Is that what people mean by open borders? So that usually shuts people up. But that's the truth.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  Believe, Mean, People

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• By deepening the spiritual dialogue between the spiritual traditions of the various religions in a spirit of friendship, one begins to understand just what the classical terms of the various spiritual traditions really mean.

  Thomas Keating

  Spiritual, Mean, Tradition

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• Sacrifice really means giving up something good for something better.

  Stephen Covey

  Giving Up, Mean, Sacrifice

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• I wanna say 'China', but I don't really mean 'China.' I just mean the places that Chinese people come from.

  Patrice O'Neal

  Mean, People, Chinese

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• The Christian is prepared to say, 'I don't like the sound of this, ... but if this is what it really means, I'm going to have to pray for grace and strength to get that into my heart and be shaped by it.'

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Heart, Mean

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• I get very nostalgic for times and places and experiences, but I have a wonderful group of core friends and family who I love and adore, so I don't mourn the loss of any particular friendship. I think they're all part of a path, and the ones that really mean something are still important in my life.

  Katie Aselton

  Mean, Loss, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not going to tell you to meditate on what Christmas really means
  and be thankful.

  Monica Mcgowan Johnson

  Mean, Being Thankful

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• Mastering the art of resilience does much more than restore you to who you once thought you were. Rather, you emerge from the experience transformed into a truer expression of who you were really meant to be.

  Carol Orsborn

  Art, Expression, Resilience

  Carol Orsborn (2010). “The Art of Resilience: One Hundred Paths to Wisdom and Strength in an Uncertain World”, p.20, Harmony

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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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• What we see on the TV screen, or the film screen or what we listen to in music, we have an illusion of what Prince Charming looks like or Cinderella's gonna look like in our life and we forget about what true love really means.

  Shari Wiedmann

  Mean, Looks, Tvs

  "Actress Shari Rigby talks about her “Beautifully Flawed” life". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. March 2015.

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• An interesting thing that I've learned is that "no" doesn't always really mean "no," it just simply means "not now."

  Cherien Dabis

  Mean, Interesting

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Theseus made unscrupulous use of Ariadne (whom he left on an island where Bacchus later found her-I always think that really meant she took to drink, poor girl).

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Girl, Thinking, Islands

  Diana Wynne Jones (2012). “Reflections”, p.118, Random House

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• Real value means people value-and creating value really means helping people choose better lives.

  Oliver DeMille

  Real, Mean, Creating Value

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• They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter.

  Dana Reinhardt

  Believe, Mean, Matter

  Dana Reinhardt (2009). “How to Build a House”, p.92, Wendy Lamb Books

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• Because the only thing that punk rock should ever really mean, is not sitting 'round and waiting for the lights to go green

  Frank Turner

  Mean, Light, Rocks

  Song: Try This at Home, Album: Poetry of the Deed, 2009

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• A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, 'I take thee to be my wedded husband,' really mean, 'I promise thee to cook three meals a day for 60 years; thee will I clean up after; thee will I talk to even when thou art not listening; thee will I worry about, cry over and take all manner of hurts from.

  Alan Beck

  Girl, Wisdom, Hurt

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• It really is a very radical call ... to reject materialism as our central value and to think about the sanctity of life and what that really means if we take it seriously.

  Naomi Oreskes

  Mean, Thinking, Materialism

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• The secret to a happy marriage is patience and honesty. I really mean that. You have to be patient, you have to be open, and you also have to be available for criticism, too.

  Cindy McCain

  Honesty, Mean, Secret

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• If you actually look at the etymology of the word 'hallucination', what it's come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That's the meaning of 'hallucination', to wander in the mind.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Mind, Looks

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• I'm everything free. I'm gluten-free. I'm dairy-free. I'm sugar-free. Sometimes I'm yeast-free which really means I eat paper.

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  Mean, Paper, Yeast

  "Zoe Lister-Jones Talks LOLA VERSUS, Her Ambitions to Direct and Write a Novel, and Her Next Film MOTHERFUCKER". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 7, 2012.

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