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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
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
You only have a week to do a show. I mean, there's only so deep you can dig in that week.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We get the impression through film and TV that Americans are violent gangsters with guns or upper-middle-class people in romcoms. I really liked the people. They were really warm. They could have been Brits. I mean that in the nicest possible way.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a lot of great lesbian role models in tennis. I mean, Martina Navratilova in her heyday was probably the greatest female athlete on the planet. Martina just kept breaking every rule. That's a great role model.
- Nov 07, 2020
Just because you can do something, it doesn't mean you need to - restraint is something I admire.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For one thing, Greenlight only hires nice people. By that, I don't mean that we avoid hiring jerks. I mean we actively look to hire people who are nice.
- Profit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our view is that just because Amazon can disrupt somebody else's profit stream, it doesn't mean that Amazon earns that profit stream.
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through enforced austerity or their taxes are used to bail out governments on the other side of the continent.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
- Stop
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have to stop waste, and if you travel for no reason whatsoever, that is a waste.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If chocolate is a foretaste of heaven, what does it mean that chocolate is freely available to all?
- Nov 07, 2020
We stay as a team. I might be England captain, but that doesn't mean I get treated differently.
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- Nov 07, 2020