#mean

I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it. ↗

— Simon Cowell

#based #being #correctness #critical #everything

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray. ↗

— William Cowper

#every step #his #his way #instinct #known

But, of course, she didn't mean that she was going to retire from public life and only when the Queen removed her HRH some years later did she actually drop a hundred charities and just kept five. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#charities #course #did #drop #five

When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.' ↗

— David Hockney

#corner #doing #enough #exploited #i

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#fire #free #free speech #means #right

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve. ↗

— Joseph Howe

#before #books #cannot #exclude #few

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#existence #infinite #means #point #random

Food is meant to be used as fuel for our bodies. If you're using it for any other reasons, take a step back and ask yourself, 'What's up.' ↗

— Jennifer Hudson

#ask #back #bodies #food #fuel

When people said Africa would change me, I didn't understand what they meant. To see the poverty in the townships, for instance, is overwhelming. I found it heart-wrenching to see young children walking barefoot and hungry in the dirt. I'm the kind of person who wants to change the world right here and now, so I got frustrated. ↗

— Jennifer Hudson

#barefoot #change #change the world #children #dirt

I have six sisters and two beautiful daughters - that's eight women who mean the world to me. I support the Entertainment Industry Foundation and Lee National Denim Day because they fund programs that are making huge strides in breast cancer research and support. ↗

— Felicity Huffman

#because #breast cancer #cancer #daughters #day