#meant

I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses. ↗

— John Deacon

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By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction. ↗

— John Dewey

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In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks I'm nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant everything I said during that first week. It's not my fault people are not taking me serious from the first moment. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

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The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

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I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

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I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

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I began to think, now is the time. I found quite a lot of opposition in Hollywood about the idea of doing a film musical and we ended up having to buy the rights back. I'm glad we did because it meant John and I were able to make exactly the movie we wanted. ↗

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

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I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It's not meant to be listened to that way. ↗

— Dean Ween

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It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes. ↗

— Billy West

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I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink. ↗

— Timothy West

#cross #different #different kinds #difficult #got