I haven't changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it... It means integrity; it means honesty; it means the absence of sentimentality and the absence of nostalgia; it means simplicity; it means clarity. That's what modernism means to me.
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Related Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming t... ERYKAH BADU Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It mea... EDWIN C. BLISS Did you ever think what the word 'vote' means? To me it means: 'Voice of Taxpayers Everywhere'. MARTIN BUXBAUM 'Vote Love' means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote what's right for hu... MACKLEMORE I'm a real simple person. I believe that the Bible means what it says, and says what it means. TAMMY FAYE BAKKER First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues... SAUL ALINSKY Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. EDWIN BLISS I like the word 'fuck'. The word means what it means, but it also means whatever you need it to mean... LISA GLATT Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to... GEORGE W. BUSH Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to... GEORGE BUSH Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live ... HILARY MANTEL I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means w... BARBARA KRUGER Do you know what integration really means? It means intermarriage. That's the real point behind ... MALCOLM X For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms poss... BJARKE INGELS If I'm in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the... CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. DEYTH BANGER What does it mean to be a conservative? I don't even know anymore. I know what it means to me. I... GLENN BECK Unbelief is never the absence of beliefs,but it simply means the limits of our beliefs. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I ha... WENDELL BERRY I know what it means to go to the stream to fetch water... what it means when people are poor and do... NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a litt... HENNY YOUNGMAN Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means. RONALD REAGAN My problem with the word 'clean' is that it has become too complicated. It has become too lo... ELLA WOODWARD Being oppressed means the absence of choices. BELL HOOKS Being oppressed means the absence of choices BELL HOOKS The acclaim I'm getting for 'The Wrestler' means everything in the world to me. But it a... MICKEY ROURKE Do you know what 'meteorologist' means in English? It means liar. LEWIS BLACK Music is very personal. It means different things to different people. To you it means belonging. To... SIMON CHESHIRE I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different t... PETER JENNINGS Transgressive to me means breaking the rules and sinning. I don't see myself as breaking the rul... SUSANNA MOORE Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse. WILLIAM JAMES No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he ... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he ... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strengt... RUSSELL MEANS All European tradition, Marxism included, has conspired to defy the natural order of all things. Mot... RUSSELL MEANS Everyone who's born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans. RUSSELL MEANS No one except Hollywood stars and very rich Texans wore Indian jewelry. And there was a plethora of ... RUSSELL MEANS Being is a spiritual proposition. Gaining is a material act. Traditionally, American Indians have al... RUSSELL MEANS In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been institute... RUSSELL MEANS Young people and Indian people need to know that we existed in the 20th Century. We need to know who... RUSSELL MEANS I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free ma... RUSSELL MEANS So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have beco... RUSSELL MEANS I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I... RUSSELL MEANS Everything is inspiration. If you look at the world as the incredible place it is, then each moment ... J.D. MEANS What saddens us is that, even though we got the conviction, the person's still out. Hopefully this w... RANDY MEANS We're going to be releasing the results of the investigation of Ernest Page. RANDY MEANS Let me go to Clinton's new proposal: to have uniforms in public schools. And people are doing th... RUSSELL MEANS Governments and corporations have yet to find a way to control this last free market of ideas. And w... RUSSELL MEANS "Indian policy" has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the ... RUSSELL MEANS Let me go to Clinton's new proposal: to have uniforms in public schools. And people are doing that. ... RUSSELL MEANS I don't want to talk about the environment and the American Indian viewpoint, I hate the word Native... RUSSELL MEANS I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market... RUSSELL MEANS If you're getting too large a refund back that means you've not done a good job of anticipating what... DENNIS MEANS I like individuals to use a home equity line of credit as opposed to a home equity loan, or second m... DENNIS MEANS Some people would suggest you charge them 20 percent or even 30 percent, but you can still give your... DENNIS MEANS How much you charge them will differ depending on the child and their circumstances. You should sit ... DENNIS MEANS The cost of living is so high these days that even though many kids have good jobs, their pay may no... DENNIS MEANS There are a lot of young adults out there who have just lost their way. Some move home after a divor... DENNIS MEANS Some parents really have trouble having their kids know their business. The parents of Baby Boomers,... DENNIS MEANS We have been dealing with this topic more and more. That's just how things are evolving. DENNIS MEANS We're looking at all this, but we have nothing further to discuss today. DOUG MEANS I had often wondered how to best decolonize my people... It must be done one human being at a time. ... RUSSELL MEANS If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free. RUSSELL MEANS When a woman grabs my braids and says "How cute!" I crab her breast and say "How cute!" She never to... RUSSELL MEANS That does make us look closely at that relationship. It may only look bad. It may not be illegal. RANDY MEANS In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness. It means wa... SANDRA CISNEROS I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not me... CAMERON DIAZ What we're doing is making sure that we have a safe and secure border region from San Diego all ... JANET NAPOLITANO A revolution simply means great change, significant change, and that's how I'm defining it -... AUNG SAN SUU KYI A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almos... ST. VINCENT When you smile, it means that your mind smiles; when you cry, it means that your mind cries! MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Even in 'Victor/Victoria,' there was talk about what it means to be a woman, what it means t... SYDNEY POLLACK Bicycle means simplicity and simplicity means happiness! MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I don't know what this means. I don't think it means anything. EDDIE VEDDER Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful. KAILASH SATYARTHI I believe that 'advocacy journalism' is not an oxymoron. If that means that I'm going to... CHRIS CUOMO It ends or it doesn't. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tu... CAITLYN SIEHL I hate that expression, 'fusion.' What it means to me is this movement where nothing ever re... WAYNE KRAMER Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL I don't know what it means to be out there against the Olympics. YAHOO SERIOUS 'Independent' means one thing to me: It means that regardless of the source of financing, th... ALEXANDER PAYNE Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and... BLAISE PASCAL It means a lot to me and I know it means a lot to those guys who were on that team. DAVE BARRETT So when people ask me what American Pie means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again ... DON MCLEAN Inconceivable!" "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. WILLIAM GOLDMAN My representation overseas can't stand me doing theatre because it takes me out of action. But i... DAVID WENHAM If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic. ALBERT ELLIS A title means marketing. It means that company's coming soon, and you'd better get out the C... CAROLINE LEAVITT Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo... DANIEL OJEDA I haven't been the best boyfriend or husband, and that means I don't get to spend every day ... GARETH GATES I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means. RON SILVER You're my equal. And as much as that means we have each other's backs in public, it also means we th... SARAH J. MAAS Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet. ROBERT H. SCHULLER I really don't know what "I love you" means I think it means "Don't leave me here alone. NEIL GAIMAN When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal. RICHARD M. NIXON I think people understand that if you're going to have a successful economy, you need people'... JUSTIN TRUDEAU I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may... RAIN Yellow usually means it's not that serious. BOBBY UNSER
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RAND Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins. AYN RAND Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public... AYN RAND The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. AYN RAND The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. AYN RAND I'm the original. SALLY RAND When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off. SALLY RAND I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo. SALLY RAND I haven't been out of work since the day I took my pants off. SALLY RAND They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a canno... SALLY RAND What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmot... SALLY RAND If you love living, you try to take care of the equipment. SALLY RAND I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by. 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AYN RAND Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a paymen... AYN RAND Im waiting, for what, my kind of people, what kind is that, i can tell my kind of people by their fa... AYN RAND The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most ... AYN RAND There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on... AYN RAND The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. AYN RAND It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an au... AYN RAND People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an ac... AYN RAND ...Aren’t they all acting on a selfish motive—to be noticed, liked, admired?” “—by ot... AYN RAND Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-... AYN RAND Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, i... AYN RAND Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, t... AYN RAND Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but t... AYN RAND Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touc... AYN RAND Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but... AYN RAND Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my... AYN RAND People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too ... Refl... AYN RAND She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each ... AYN RAND I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place. 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