#mean

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#gullible #hands #hearts #help #may

Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#around #far #fewer #higher #industry

I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#different #different characters #fun #games #i

Acting is a great way to make a living, especially when I consider what my alternatives were and probably still are. I mean, you are only making movies. It is a lot less pressure than being a surgeon; although it seemed like the only other thing that I was qualified for was manual labour. ↗

— James Spader

#alternatives #although #being #consider #especially

I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the North and the South and the Civil War; I really mean just politically. ↗

— James Spader

#barack obama #civil #civil war #divisiveness #faces

If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#commitment #community #days #equal #equal rights

Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully. ↗

— Menachem Mendel Schneerson

#everyday #living #material #material world #meaningfully

Free trade should not mean free labor. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

#free trade #labor #mean #should #trade

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

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