- Nov 07, 2020
Mean Quotes
Lines that use 'mean' to clarify, joke, or emphasize.
Most quotes gathered under 'mean' use the word conversationally, to clarify a point or land a joke, rather than to define anything abstract - one marriage joke, one music confession of real devotion. Know has a similar conversational tone.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Just Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
Adapting a book doesn't mean the book stops just because you've made a film out of it.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played cello on my early recordings, but that doesn't mean I'm a cellist, you know?
- Nervous
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there came a time when we didn't get nervous, that would be worrying, as it'd mean we didn't care as much.
- Praying
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- Nov 07, 2020
Praying doesn't mean repeating a prayer.
- Nov 07, 2020
Just because you call something a blockchain or an ICO, that doesn't mean you aren't subject to normal laws.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a big, big movie fan; really, I've seen everything. I really mean that, too.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first read Dostoyevsky when I was 14 years old and was entranced. Dostoyevsky truly is a writer for 14-year-olds, and I mean that in the most approving way - approving of his energy, and rage, his endless pessimism, and endless innocence.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Taking trains and trams in Berlin, I noticed people reading. Books, I mean - not pocket-size devices that bleep as if censorious, on which even Shakespeare scans like a spreadsheet.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an outdoorsman kind of person, so I don't like the buzz of the crowd, crowd, crowd and all that so much. I mean I don't mind it, but I don't seek it out.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020