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I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean. — Walt Disney
I know I draw without taking my pen off the page. I just keep going, and that my drawings I think of them as scribbles.… — Frank Gehry
Let me make it quite clear that when Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something mental or moral. When… — C.S. Lewis
If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling. If there is… — Jayne Anne Phillips
Life has taught me that you can’t control someone’s loyalty. No matter how good you are to them, doesn’t mean they’ll treat you the same.… — Trent Shelton
I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will,… — Louisa May Alcott
We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility. — Malcolm Gladwell
I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different. — Martin Gore
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others. — Charles Caleb Colton
Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean. — Mason Cooley
San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy.… — George Halas
There are some teams and logos you see, no matter where you are in the world, and you know exactly who they are and what… — LeBron James
The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to… — Mike Love
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment. — James Russell Lowell
People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want. — David Mamet
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did… — Orison Swett Marden
I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's… — Viggo Mortensen
Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer… — Rupert Murdoch
When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and… — Steven Pinker
When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. — Tom Robbins
There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and… — William Tecumseh Sherman
As far as Deep Purple goes, I mean, they're iconic. Their contribution is unquantifiable, and as far as the politics involved in things like awards,… — Steve Vai
After the first glass of vodka you can accept just about anything of life even your own mysteriousness you think it is nice that a… — Frank O'Hara
Those who don't say what they mean will live and die by their own sword. — Noel Gallagher
Growing up is a trap," snapped Dr. Robbins. "When they tell you to shut up, they mean stop talking. When they tell you to grow… — Tom Robbins

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