#mean

I still love things that you don't even need to pay for. Going to the beach and being around five of your friends and having a good time means so much more than going out and spending hundreds of dollars. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#beach #being #dollars #even #five

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#again #answer #anyway #asked #bear

Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine. ↗

— John Shirley

#artists #born #categories #confuse #entertain

I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal. ↗

— Clare Short

#aid #bear #brought #enormous #enormous pressure

Single payer means something different to everyone. The way I define it is that health care is a right and not a privilege. ↗

— Peter Shumlin

#define #different #everyone #health #health care

I always seem to find myself fighting the law of equilibrium - the great leveling force that brings things to the mean and takes the 'cartoonishness' out of life. Perhaps I am doing a very unnatural thing... If Einstein were still alive I would ask him about it. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#alive #always #am #ask #brings

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music. ↗

— Nina Simone

#classical #classical music #dirt #i #jazz

What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it. ↗

— Bryan Singer

#any #better #call #complexity #deserve

These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#endings #excellent #express #happy #joint

She has no imagination and that means no compassion. ↗

— Michael Foot

#imagination #means #she