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Business
Mind
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
- A. C. Benson
Normal
Okay
Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.
- A. J. McLean
Like
Everybody
While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Elected
Right Kind
The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Will
Against
It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Think
Based
The WWE is based on, I think, reaction. You know, if you can't get a reaction, that means you can't put butts in the seats.
- A.J. Styles
Fact
Die
I know the fact that I was born means I have to die, so my only aim is to reach out and help someone along the way.
- Aaron Neville
Business
Some
I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
- Aaron Paul
Other
Lives
I don't believe that we should limit waterboarding - or, quite frankly, any other alternative torture technique - if it means saving Americans' lives.
- Aaron Schock
Cultural
Very
My family is Muslim. But I don't consider myself a very devout Muslim, but a cultural Muslim, whatever that means.
- Aasif Mandvi
Consensus
Believes
A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
- Abba Eban
Theatre
Free Speech
Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
- Abbie Hoffman
Reason
Through
You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know that there's a reason and end to the means.
- Abby Wambach
Envy
May
This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
- Abraham Cowley
Doing
Which
Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.
- Abraham Maslow
World
Most
My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.
- Adam Ant
Process
Rehearsal
The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.
- Adam Garcia
Development
Same
People want development. Not everyone knows what it means. Same as jobs. Not everyone knows what a job is, but people want jobs.
- Adam Giles
Firmly
Outside World
Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
- Adam Grant
Insurance
Level
I want to level the playing field for people who want to purchase health insurance as individuals, and that means eliminating the exemption for employer-sponsored health care.
- Adam Hasner
Magic
Nevertheless
Neither a success nor by any means a failure, Roku will nevertheless ask public investors for money because they, too, have a right to dream that magic will become reality one day.
- Adam Lashinsky
Work
Late
My job means I work late.
- Adam Levine
Country
Seeing
Seeing that flag means so much: I am inspired by my Queen, my country.
- Adam Peaty
Racing
Country
Nothing means more to me than racing for my country, the Queen, the Royal Family, and the people back home that support me.
- Adam Peaty
Happen
World Records
Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
- Adam Peaty
Mystery
Most
Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
- Adam Weishaupt
Reason
Which
This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.
- Adam Weishaupt
Usual
Conclude
All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.
- Adelbert von Chamisso
Some
Discovering
My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.
- Adelbert von Chamisso
Want
Going
A high openness score means you're open-minded - you see the world for what it is - whereas a low openness score means you're incredibly closed-minded, and you see the world the way you want to see it, regardless of what is actually going on.
- Adeo Ressi
Warrior
Wealth
Wale means to arrive home. So the crown has arrived home. Akin is warrior or brave man. Nuoye is a brave man of chieftaincy and Agbaje means wealth and prosperity.
- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Accepted
Amount
When a child wants to be accepted, he'll do anything. And if it means you're getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that's what you'll do.
- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Ideal
Set
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
- Adlai Stevenson
Love
Nonviolence
We know that peace is only possible when it is the fruit of justice. True peace is a profound transformation by means of the force of nonviolence that is the power of love.
- Adolfo Perez Esquivel
Living
Which
Perhaps the secret of living a holy life is to avoid every thing which will displease God and grieve the Spirit, and to be strictly attentive to the means of grace.
- Adoniram Judson
Hours
Sigh
Ineffective substitute teaching is a problem that means thousands of hours of lost learning for America's students. It cannot be dismissed with a sigh and 'Just wait for the teacher to come back on Monday.'
- Adora Svitak
Sky
Which
It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.
- Adrian Cronauer
Nervous
Give
If you're nervous, that means you care and you want to give your best.
- Adriana Lima
Production
Will
The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
- Adrienne Rich
Own
Give
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
- Aesop
Better
Preservation
If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it.
- Agnes Macphail
Flattery
My Own
I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.
- Agnetha Faltskog
Me
Get
With L'Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
- Aimee Mullins
Beauty
Indicator
Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
- Aimee Mullins
Color
Think
Diversity is such an interesting word. I feel like when people hear the word 'diversity,' they think that it means only people of color, when in reality, diversity is all-inclusive; it means everyone.
- Aja Naomi King
Think
I Think
I want to write. I want to direct. I want to produce - I want to inhabit what I think it means to fully be an artist.
- Aja Naomi King
Rest
News
In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself.
- Al Franken
Kind
Still
I just can't sit still and meditate; that doesn't kind of work for me. I don't even know exactly what it means.
- Al Franken
Love
Grow
Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
- Al Franken
Success
Know
My secret for success? I don't know what the hell success means.
- Al Lewis
Think
I Think
I've had many uncanny experiences. I think it's hard to be alive and not have them. But I don't know if I can decide what that means or what they are.
- Alan Alda
Through
Give
The same Source that gave you the idea, will give you the means to see it through.
- Alan Cohen
Liberty
Which
'Liberal' is a great word - from the root, 'liberty,' which means free.
- Alan Colmes
Insurance
Which
The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.
- Alan Coren
New
Certainly
There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.
- Alan Dean Foster
Express
Which
Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent.
- Alan Dershowitz
Fiction
Entertain
I am there to entertain. I call my work high escape fiction; it's high, it's good - but it's escape, and I have no delusions about that. I have no ambition to be a serious writer, whatever that means.
- Alan Furst
Through
Found
Anytime we wanted to do something, we found a way to do it through conventional banking means.
- Alan Gerry
Abroad
Other
Chinese productivity is the highest in the world but the way they do it is by borrowing the technology from abroad, either by joint ventures or other means.
- Alan Greenspan
Which
Continent
Without an adequate response, an epidemic can develop into a pandemic, which generally means it has spread to more than one continent.
- Alan Huffman
Side
Which
Historically, war journalists have embedded themselves with one side, which means the greatest threat comes from the clearly delineated enemy of that side.
- Alan Huffman
Southern
Which
But then southern hemisphere teams are more skilful than their northern hemisphere counterparts, which means games can be easier to referee.
- Alan Lewis
Enjoy
Other
Money's fine if it enables you to enjoy your life and to be useful to other people. But as something that is a means to an end, no, it's useless.
- Alan Moore
Think
Became
I think fame became exciting for me in the late '90s because I could actually use it as a means to an end. I could actually have it help me serve my vocationfulness.
- Alanis Morissette
Die
Making
There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.
- Albert Camus
Society
Big
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
- Albert Camus
Everyone
Govern
To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
- Albert Camus
Medical
Study
When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.
- Albert Claude
Characterize
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
- Albert Einstein
Work
Unrealistic
If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.
- Albert Ellis
Process
Necessary
Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.
- Albert J. Nock
Pet
Miseries
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
- Albert Schweitzer
Been
Minister
Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed.
- Alberta Hunter
Technology
Efficient
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
- Aldous Huxley
Attitude
Which
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
- Aldous Huxley
Always
Over
To shoot a conventional film means that you are always covering yourself. You are putting nets and, in a way, letting bad decisions take over.
- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Thought
Read
When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it was a means of thought resuscitation.
- Aleksandar Hemon
Which
Stories
I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.
- Aleksandar Hemon
Social
European
To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries.
- Aleksander Kwasniewski
Doing
Like
I like it when I see people dressed on the street, and it looks like Gucci, but it's not. It means you are doing something right.
- Alessandro Michele
Dress
Show
Luxury means that you show the way you dress with eccentricity.
- Alessandro Michele
Through
Assembling
I am brazen. For me, creating means regurgitating, distorting, and assembling everything that has passed through me and continues to do so.
- Alessandro Michele
Immortality
Which
If you are an antichrist, you won't believe in the bible prophecy from the beginning. Which means, you won't believe that physical immortality will become possible.
- Alex Chiu
Everyone
Entitled
We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.
- Alex Gibney
Will
Brutal
When we go to war, our politicians will be guided by our popular will. And if we believe that torture 'got' bin Laden, then we will be more prone to accept the view that a good 'end' can justify brutal 'means.'
- Alex Gibney
Risks
Reward
I feel like when there's more on the line and there's more risks, that means there's more reward.
- Alex Morgan
Want
Code
'Simplifying' the tax code is a priority mainly for people who make enough money to want to avoid paying taxes, and who make their money by means unorthodox enough to make avoiding taxes possible and desirable.
- Alex Pareene
Through
Which
Ideally, in the future, you'll just pay your cable company for the stream, which you'll be able to watch and manipulate through whatever means on whatever devices you like.
- Alex Pareene
World
Having
Having the respect of your peers means the world to me.
- Alex Rodriguez
Zero
Either
Carbon zero simply means that the emissions you are releasing either are zero or balance out to zero.
- Alex Steffen
Beauty
Always
Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!
- Alexander Alekhine
Stupidity
Blind
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
- Alexander Berkman
Art
Perfect
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
- Alexander Calder
Harvest
More
I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.
- Alexander Payne
Sympathetic
Bizarre
There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never engage in that discussion. I never use that word, 'sympathetic.' I just know 'interesting.'
- Alexander Payne
Wealth
Get
Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.
- Alexander Pope
Makeup
Always
Makeup is something that a female has to reckon with every single day. Whether you wear it or don't, you're always making decisions about wearing it or not, or how you're wearing it, and what that means.
- Alexandra Kleeman
Proud
Perfect
Bills ought to be passed with deliberation by committees. Change should be achieved in a bipartisan manner. Incrementally, day by day, we should reach a consensus - not perfect, by any means - but something that we can be proud of, nonetheless.
- Alexandra Petri
Well-Being
Always
Happiness is the first principle of life. Happiness basically means well-being. It is always good and always a choice... We need to make the choice to be happy in a particular situation, just as it is, and at a given moment.
- Alexandra Stoddard
Reflection
Soul
The home is the center of your soul; it's a total reflection of your inner life. If you have a dreary home, it means you are dark inside.
- Alexandra Stoddard
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