- Personal
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- 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
- Serious
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I've left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I've had has not been into double digits.
- Deliberately
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm afraid that - not necessarily deliberately, but consistently - I've made a kind of laboratory out of my life, where I mix the stuff in the test tubes to create explosions - possibly resulting in interesting by-products. I mean, not deliberately - I'd be crazy to deliberately do that - or maybe not.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
My feeling for Liverpool does not mean I'm tied to them.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was heavy as a kid. I mean, I kind of got it together for a while there in my 20s and early 30s.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was just a lot smarter about not getting caught. I mean, I never stuck anything in my arm, but I certainly enjoyed my youth.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, The New York Times actually had an interesting case recently where they described a detainee who was afraid of the dark, and so he was purposely kept very much in the dark.
- Behaviors
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, not wanting to be flip about it, but even within a corporation, you get sort of cult-like behaviors sometimes.
- He Or She
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great thing about a painter is that he or she lives on - I mean, Andrew Wyeth is more in his paintings than he was walking around.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always thought just because I love football, it doesn't necessarily mean I'm desperate to manage.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties.
- Nov 07, 2020
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
- Band
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- Nov 07, 2020
To do a band properly does kind of mean you don't really get to do anything else.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like... the band I've signed on to our label right now; they're called The Sounds. They're kind of like a new-wave pop band.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020