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Allowing your kids to watch TV doesn't have to mean they have no choice but to see commercials for junk food and alcohol.
Curious, isn't it that "talking with the right people" means something so different from "talking with the right person"?
Just because he was pretty didn't mean he couldn't be improved by a smack upside the head with a piece of earnest hickory
We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him.
Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.
When you introduce something new to a country, you want to do it right. Generally, that means you have to do it yourself.
The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
Freedom means you're free to do just whatever pleases you; if, of course that is to say, what you please is what you may.
I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to people.
Saying yes means getting up and acting on your belief that you can create meaning and purpose in whatever life hands you.
Sometimes it takes time to get into what ideas actually mean to you. Even when you're not writing a song, it's like that.
I mean, you can't be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government's policy is benevolent, can you now?
When the juices of trees have no means of escape, they clot and rot in them, making the trees hollow and good for nothing.
Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball.
I like to have a hero a little underpowered. I mean, Spiderman is far cooler than Superman. How do you challenge Superman?
If freedom means anything at all, it is the right to primacy in regard to sexuality, reproduction, medical care and death.
I can be trained, I can actually show you how intelligent I am, I can use a word like delicatessen and know what it means.
Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president.
Because every time someone finds a new animal, or a new amazing thing on earth, it means we haven't broken everything yet.
Real integrity means an answer. It doesn't just mean - it doesn't mean riding the anger. And this is very difficult to do.
When you find your reason for living, hold onto it. Never let it go. Even if it means burning other bridges along the way.
Can I give a little advice to the old man on Capitol Hill? Stop saying teabagger. Ask your younger staffers what it means.
Isolation means a lack of growth. I grew up in China at a time when the country was completely isolated. That era is over.
Simplicity means to feel such a sense of kinship with others that we choose to live simply so that others may simply live.
You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?
Doctrine does matter. But one must ever be reminded that to be right on doctrine does not mean one is right with the Lord.
Let my name die everywhere, let even my friends forget me, if by that means the cause of the blessed Jesus may be promoted
Sometimes being an artist means knowing when to let someone see something in you that is there that you can't hear or see.
All right mister, let me tell you that winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.
It means that we should celebrate today's failure because it is a clear sign that our voyage of discovery is not yet over.
But it turns out that people who are grounded and secure don't change much under stress. That's what being grounded means.
Living simply means concentrating on what's important in light of eternity. And not taking the rest of life too seriously.
For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.
I mean there is an assumption made that Islam is about submission, and I think that the submission that we have is to God.
It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.
Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.
Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky.
I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.
If democracy is a means rather than an end, its limits must be determined in the light of the purpose we want it to serve.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.
Team spirit means you are willing to sacrifice personal considerations for the welfare of all. That defines a team player.
In a relationship you have to communicate, which means listening to her talk. Ladies, you fake orgasms. We fake listening.
I've made it very clear that I'm interested in voiceover work. I mean, I'm always looking for voiceover gigs. I love that.
Exposing any subject that is unpleasant or controversial means risking judgment and making some people feel uncomfortable.
For many students, school is an obligation, not a joy and a privilege. This means you need to ‘sell’ the learning to them.
Misery nourishes your ego - that's why you see so many miserable people in the world. The basic, central point is the ego.
I will not say the fact that there are no European Union observers at an election means that it will not be fair and free.
The likelihood that inborn differences are one contributor to social status does not mean that it is the only contributor.
Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.