#mean

Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good. ↗

— Laura Linney

#famous #good #just #just because #mean

Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#just #mean #some #some things #something

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#condition #conscience #eternal #grows #life

Hackman is able to live in the moment which means there is nothing for him at that split second than what is occurring in the scene. ↗

— James Lipton

#hackman #him #live #means #moment

The studio is meant to be always a place where, first of all, they can be out of spotlight, and second, where they could work with a peer group on parts that they might not have played otherwise. ↗

— James Lipton

#could #first #first of all #group #meant

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce. ↗

— Friedrich List

#his #how #improvement #invention #learns

If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N.A.A.C.P. would be in true crisis. ↗

— Eric Liu

#barack #barack obama #call #carried #certainly

We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions. ↗

— Eric Liu

#am #bad #balancing #big #campaigns

Americans need to call on Boomers, in their next act onstage, to behave like grown-ups. And there is no better way for them to do this than to guide young people to lives of greater meaning, effectiveness, and purpose. ↗

— Eric Liu

#behave #better #better way #boomers #call

Republicans say they want citizenship to truly mean something. Let's be equal-opportunity about it and test everyone, including those very Republicans and others whose forbears came here generations ago. ↗

— Eric Liu

#ago #came #citizenship #everyone #generations