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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although being economics editor sounds impressive, it does not mean I actually edit anything. It mainly reflects two decades of title-inflation at the BBC, which has given ever more status to senior reporters, presumably because it is cheaper to do that than to offer higher pay.
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- Nov 07, 2020
By 1979, Chinese people were poorer, on average, than North Koreans. I mean, your average per-capita income in China that year was one third of sub-Saharan Africa's.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just because #ad or #spon is there doesn't mean I'm only doing it for money. I make sure, in the text, that it's very obvious that I'm having fun.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was originally like a punker, know what I mean, like the punks are today, I'd spit in a minute.
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I mean, Joel talks to the actors more than I do and I probably do production stuff a little more than he does.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainly 'Lonesome Dove' would be way hard now, because, I mean, back then I wasn't married. I didn't have kids.
- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, football is a violent sport.
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- Nov 07, 2020