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Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.
India is like Europe. This means there isone currency and numerous languages andcultures. And this is a 'Europe' made up ofvarious cultures.
Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.
I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it means.
A parenting program should provide time for parents to clarify their own ideas about what it means to be an effective and successful parent.
If you decide to do comedy that involves risk, risk means risk, and you can't complain of flesh wounds if you sit down at the table to play.
Whenever I really get serious about something, I pull my hair back into a tight ponytail. If you see me with that, you know I mean business.
You put a movie star or a bunch of movie stars in a movie, it doesn't mean people are gonna go see it. It's been proven time and time again.
The fact that my grown kids like to hang out with me, I mean, it just - I don't think it really can get any better than that, I don't think.
We must not forget that health is only a means to an end. If health were the end, we would be like animals; animals rarely become unhealthy.
The best teachers have shown me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly - we only think it does.
Time is really for those who really need it. I mean, I deal with it. A lot of people are slaves to the second, minute hand. I can't do that!
I grew up in California, which was not - at least in the '50s and '60s - a cultural oasis by any means. Certainly not Orange County, anyway.
Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right. Some people are offended by mixed marriage, gay people, atheism. So what? F*** 'em.
Asian players train so hard. Most of the time, on Monday mornings, the only people you see on the range are Asians. I mean, only see Asians.
We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.
Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.
I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.
Many in the American military have learned the fundamental dilemma of modern warfare: More money and better weapons don't mean that you win.
When someone shows you how little you mean to them and you keep coming back for more, before you know it you start to mean less to yourself.
I don't want to just be an actor my whole life. I mean I do want to be an actor my whole life but not only an actor, I want to be an artist.
Conservation means development as much as it does protection. A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.
One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.
..."And then we played Ping-Pong—” “Not pool? I always assumed he was a billiards man—I mean, it’s so handy the way he keeps a stick up his—
Honey, I liked the Harry Potter movies, too, but that doesn’t mean I ran out and got a Dark Mark tattooed onto my left forearm like you did.
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.
War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.
You have no idea, right now, what some young person in your church will mean for the cause of Christ. Lean in, encourage, mentor, think big.
True love means you love the real person, not an ideal that you have in your head and superimpose over them. That's illusion and lies to me.
Real democracy means that no group or faction or leader can impose their will, their ideology, their religion, their desires on anyone else.
If you just live totally, you will dissolve lots of karma. Living totally means that you experience anything that comes fully and intensely.
I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.
Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change.
Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories.
But then southern hemisphere teams are more skilful than their northern hemisphere counterparts, which means games can be easier to referee.
Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.
I think having simplicity doesn't always mean that you make a good movie. I have a theory that a movie that's easy to make is hard to watch.
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
The White House is dismissing these town hall fireworks as AstroTurf movements which means it`s the opposite of a true grass roots movement.
Not trusting your sixth sense, will always -and I mean always- come back to haunt you. Have the courage to stand alone and trust your vibes.
he's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while.
I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.
I have a magpie mind, by which I mean I see and hear little things - photos, fragments of conversation - and store them away for future use.
Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio.
They who load us with insults and ignominies give us the means of acquiring treasures more precious than any that man can gain in this life.
I've never made the separation between, say, the museum and the hardware store. I mean, I enjoy both of them, and I want to combine the two.
An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk by.
I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean?