- Professional
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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
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am the first to point out that I really am not kind to illustrators. By that, I mean I really don't give that much to work with.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Milestones have never really meant a lot. They probably will mean more when I've finished playing and actually reflect on what I have achieved.
- Field
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's what we really mean by being feared on the football field. And not actually the player that fears him, it's the offensive coordinator that fears him or the running backs coach.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hypnotized myself so in my subconscious, I believed I couldn't get hurt. And I don't mean 'believe' - I mean believe believe believe.
- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not mean. I'm a nice guy.
- Obsession
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
- Meet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The promise of welfare and welfare regulation mean that there is no incentive to accept jobs that do not meet basic standards.
- Motion
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has never been the case that a peerage can be extinguished, even for the lifetime of a peer, by a motion of the Lords. This does not mean that there are not effective ways of penalising errant peers.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.
- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020
Electing the first Catholic president, my grandfather, in 1960, did not mean that religious intolerance disappeared from our land.
- Disappearance
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- Nov 07, 2020