Mean Quotes
Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the sociopolitical reality.
Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.
Part of building a new nation means building a spirit of tolerance, love and respect amongst the people of this country.
To remember oneself means the same thing as to be aware of oneself - I am. It is not a function, not thinking, not feeling; it is a different state of consciousness.
Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have to give up all the other important things.
A Warrior knows that the ends do not justify the means. Because there are no ends, there are only means.
There's a difference between performing in Philadelphia to New York as much as a difference between playing in Luton and playing in San Francisco, y’know what I mean?
Fundamentalism is another problem. I mean, Dawkins in a way is almost a fundamentalist himself, of another kind.
We cannot take for granted that the future will be better, and that means we need to work to create it today.
It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them.
Since eternity means happiness for you, what does it matter if some of these passing moments are unpleasant?
It is sometimes hard to know what Sarah Palin means, just on a day to day basis. Sometimes it is hard to follow what she is talking about.
To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.
You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind.
When you put a big budget into a film, it doesn't necessarily mean it will be a better picture, but it does help in creating new images on the screen.
The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
Your brand or your name is simply your reputation, you have to fight in life to protect that as it means everything. Nothing is more important.
There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.
Punk Funk means to be one with yourself. To be rebellious, aggressive, able to do and say what you feel at all times, without inflicting mental or spiritual pain.
Nothing in life means anything unless someone cares, and the whole trick is to keep being that someone.
Say what you mean to do...and take it for granted you mean to do right. Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one...you will wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.
Success may or may not mean that you've acquired a lot. It does mean that you have become a generous person.
What we mean by maturity in people's thinking is not a matter of how smart they are, but it is a matter of the order of consciousness in which they exercise their smartness or their lack of it.
You have to make doubt and devils obey you. Don't ever treat the devil nice. Treat him mean and tell him what to do.
What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions.
There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.
Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's one option for all filmmakers making a horror film and it's not something I've found myself above either.
Multinational corporations and a market economy have transformed human beings into instruments of making money. Human beings should be the end. And money should be the means to an end.
Eventually, ritual was developed as a means of contacting and utilizing the energy within humans as well as in the nature world.
I don't have anything to prove ever, ever in my life. If I have something to prove, what does that mean for everyone else? And I think everyone should have that attitude.
If you're nasty, I won't fight. If you're rough, well that's just you. If you're mean, that's alright too. Whatever you are is all okay. I don't like you anyway.
In a real relationship, you take two steps forward, one step back. So just because we take two steps forward and get all the benefit from that doesn't mean we can't go back or to the side.
I am naive when it comes to love, you know what I mean? I do believe in falling in love at first sight and things like that.
As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.
An emcee is a Master of Ceremonies. If you're an emcee, and I am an emcee... I rhyme, you know what I mean? I do things for my fans that still appreciate me, let them know what's coming.
I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it means.
True artistic renewal does not mean being stripped of fetters. It means moving into new fetters.
Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.