#mean

I may, and I think I represent a tradition that means a lot to me, which has really always been about fighting for others, for middle-class families, for working class - for working people, you know, and that's a tradition and a commitment that I take very seriously. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#always #been #class #commitment #families

Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I'm mean and I'm not. People expect me to have fangs. ↗

— Joan Jett

#describe #expect #fangs #i #impression

Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans. ↗

— Joan Jett

#band #being #company #conventional #create

I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire life and trying to make sure my whole life is balanced. ↗

— Jewel

#attention #balanced #entire #entire life #great

I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours. ↗

— Jewel

#door #focused #hours #i #left

I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake? ↗

— Norman Jewison

#even #films #i #make #making

I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them. ↗

— Ma Jian

#being #believe #chinese #chinese people #controlled

It wasn't success, because Teller and I, by the time Asparagus Valley got together - within a year, we had achieved all our goals. I mean, our goal was to earn our living doing exactly what we wanted. Which is many people's goal. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#asparagus #because #by the time #doing #earn

Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical. ↗

— Ian St. John

#everybody #finishes #first #first thing #goes

In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#artists #child #i #know #meant