Really Mean Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• What does it really mean to be a leftist in the early part of the 21st century? What are we really talking about? And I can just be very candid with you. It means to have a certain kind of temperament, to make certain kinds of political and ethical choices, and to exercise certain analytical focuses in targeting on the catastrophic and the monstrous, the scandalous, the traumatic, that are often hidden and concealed in the deodorized and manicured discourses of the mainstream. That's what it means to be a leftist. So let's just be clear about it.

  Cornel West

  Mean, Exercise, Talking

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• If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other people's opinions. Of course, this may be only an exaggerated way of stating the prosaic truth that reputation, that is, the opinion others have of us, is indispensable if we are to make any progress in the world.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mean, People, Honor

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.35, 谷月社

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• The laurels of victory are at the point of the enemy bayonets. They must be plucked there; they must be carried by a hand-to-hand fight if one really means to conquer.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Mean, Fighting, Hands

  "Precepts and Judgments". Book by Ferdinand Foch, 1919.

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• We speak of memorizing as getting something 'by heart,' which really means 'by head.' But getting a poem or prose passage truly 'by heart' implies getting it by mind and memory and understanding and delight.

  John Hollander

  Memories, Heart, Mean

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• My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.

  Channing Tatum

  Mean, Successful, Bars

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• Most Americans would say that they disapproved of violence. But what they really mean is that they believe it should be the monopoly of the state.

  Edgar Friedenberg

  Believe, Mean, Violence

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• I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.

  Angela Carter

  Fun, Book, Mean

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• From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.

  Reynolds Price

  Artist, Age, World

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• The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Mean, Stories, Emotion

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• Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

  Steven Bochco

  Stories, Television, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Advances don't fundamentally interest me. It sounds terribly naive, but money doesn't really mean anything to me. If a lot of money came my way, I'm certainly not going to say no. But it hasn't come my way as yet, and I'm not heartbroken.

  Upamanyu Chatterjee

  Heartbroken, Mean, Sound

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• When you start a new job or a particular journey, you really don't know what to expect. I mean, you hear about your name being on the bestsellers list, but it doesn't really mean anything. Like, really, what does that translate to?

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Jobs, Mean, Journey

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• I'm formally trained, I don't know what classically trained really means. I've worked with Sanford Meisner. And I've worked at Circle Rep with Marshall W. Mason and Lanford Wilson and some really good people. I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.

  Brad Dourif

  Mean, Circles, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.

  Christopher Guest

  Children, Growing Up, London

  "Nowt so queer as folk" by Richard Grant, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2004.

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• When I got my very first phone call that I'd hit the 'New York Times' list, I had a small rush of 'I've made it!' But the next morning, it occurred to me I didn't know what it was, so I called my agent and asked what being a 'New York Times' bestselling author really meant. He informed me that I was now a thousand pound gorilla.

  Lisa Gardner

  Morning, New York, Phones

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• Too many heroes stepping on too many toes, too many yes-men nodding when they really mean no.

  Jethro Tull

  Hero, Mean, Men

  Song: Too Many Too

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• The joy of 'Crash' was that it was all about the work. It was my first real part. Before that, it was a line here and there, maybe a scene. 'Crash' was five scenes, a beautiful arc, a little vignette of my own. It really meant something.

  Michael Pena

  Beautiful, Real, Joy

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

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• Before the people at large, and for that matter, the artists themselves, understand what photography really means, as I understand that term, it is essential for them to be taught the real meaning of art.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Photography, Art, Real

  Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”

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• How do you stop longing for what you absolutely know you can't get? Which really means: How do you absolutely know you can't-and won't-get it, not ever? How do you pinch out that wisp of feeble, ruthless hope?

  Leigh Newman

  Mean, Longing, Wisps

  Leigh Newman (2013). “Still Points North: One Alaskan Childhood, One Grown-up World, One Long Journey Home”, p.170, Dial Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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