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Mean Quotes by Orson Welles
- I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.
- The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
- The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.
- If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means…
- In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never…
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- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
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- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
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- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams