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I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it… — Elizabeth Hurley
You know, this dialogue is only helpful when we come, both of us, to a point and realize that no dialogue is possible, that no… — U.G. Krishnamurti
It was my mother who taught me the one worthwhile thing: when they ask if you like what you see in the mirror, pretend that… — Gary Lutz
I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's… — Richard Greenberg
I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean. — Lucille Clifton
My fans are incredible. They mean the world to me, I love them dearly. — Greyson Chance
Im not really about blackness, per se, but about blackness and whiteness, and what they mean and how they interact with one another and what… — Kara Walker
No... souls are just counters for churches to collect, all the same value, like nails. No, what makes man man is mind; it's not a… — John Wyndham
As a reader, you’re often inside one or more character heads, so you know what they’re feeling, even if they can’t exactly say it, or… — Will Schwalbe
We have a whole generation of men who don't understand how much they mean to their kids. — Tony Dungy
Occasions when you can change your mind should be cherished, because they mean you're smarter than you were before. — Malcolm Gladwell
Ask anyone what that means, what it means to see a miracle, and they will say that it's something impossible, but they mean that a… — Michael Cisco
Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How… — Richard P. Feynman
My face, my self, what would they mean to anybody? Just another stiff. So this self of mine passes some other's self on the street… — Haruki Murakami
So perhaps the correct conclusion is that Green was less attuned to how people sound when they speak - the actual words and expressions they… — Francine Prose
I used to wish I could write songs like the others - and I've tried but I just can't. I get the words all right,… — Ringo Starr
I've long come to the conclusion that when people say they can't put a book down, they don't mean they're interested in what's happening next;… — David Malouf
When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You are talking anti-Semitism. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering a new word,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
You invented the words, and you gave me a dictionary and you said, 'These are what the words mean.' Well, this is what they mean… — Charles Manson
We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean. — Michelangelo Antonioni
When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches. — Kenny Smith
I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain. — Alan Bennett
There is no right way to knit; there is no wrong way to knit. So if anybody kindly tells you that what you are doing… — Elizabeth Zimmermann
Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They don’t mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation… — E E Cummings

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