#mean

I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18! ↗

— Angela Lansbury

#academy award #age #award #contract #got

The essential difference with Builders is that they've found something to do that matters to them and are therefore so passionately engaged, they rise above the personality baggage that would otherwise hold them down. Whatever they are doing has so much meaning to them that the cause itself provides charisma and they plug into it as if it was electrical current. ↗

— Jerry Porras

#leadership #meaning #leadership

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#dull #going #great #idea #illusion

The whole idea of equal justice under law means that you've got to play by the rules. It has nothing to do with the underlying subject matter. You just tell the truth. ↗

— Kenneth Starr

#equal justice #got #idea #just #justice

Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA. ↗

— Fred Upton

#american consumer #carbon #consumer #cuts #electricity

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness. ↗

— Huey Newton

#being #bring #chamber #community #consciousness

Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning. ↗

— Jeane Dixon

#endowed #lives #meaning #our #our lives

We continue to resist the occupier militarily, culturally and by all means of the resistance. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#culturally #means #militarily #occupier #resist

No one could have prepared for me BBQ on pizza. I mean, both are great. But together? It was incredible. ↗

— Pau Gasol

#could #great #i #incredible #me

I was looking for what the meaning of life was. ↗