#mean

If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first. ↗

— Larry Bird

#bank #came #children #deal #due

Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#any #both #cast #clock #come

In my day, people didn't do nude scenes. I mean they didn't exist. ↗

— Claire Bloom

#exist #i #mean #nude #people

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#australians #expectancy #health #highest #life

Ageing means a loss of a number of skills over time. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#loss #means #number #over #skills

Although being economics editor sounds impressive, it does not mean I actually edit anything. It mainly reflects two decades of title-inflation at the BBC, which has given ever more status to senior reporters, presumably because it is cheaper to do that than to offer higher pay. ↗

— Evan Davis

#although #anything #bbc #because #being

The message from the United States and Europe is that governments must live within their means. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#governments #live #means #message #must

The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions, such as London and Cambridge, and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are hoovered up by London. ↗

— Evan Davis

#cambridge #city #cluster #hollywood #industries

Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market. ↗

— Gray Davis

#deregulated #energy #energy companies #flawed #had

Meanwhile, hard-working Americans are increasingly faced with workplace conditions in which critically important safeguards are watered down, emerging problems are ignored, and enforcement is scaled back. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#conditions #critically #down #emerging #enforcement