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  • When I was growing up I used to think that the best thing about coming from Des Moines was that it meant you didn't come from anywhere else in Iowa. By Iowa standards, Des Moines is a mecca of cosmopolitanism, a dynamic hub of wealth and education...
  • Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level.
  • Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things. Life is one crisis after another.
  • The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
  • Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
  • Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.
  • If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.
  • The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares religion off limits in public life is a state that declares itself supreme over all religious values.
  • The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.
  • There is a lurking fear that some things are 'not meant' to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human being to make.
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  • William Ellery Channing Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Bob Saget 25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.
    Bob Saget
    American stand-up comedian, actor, television host and director (1956 - 2022)
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  • Bruce Lee A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Marguerite Duras A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Brene Brown A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Wilson Mizner A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
    Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
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  • Alva Myrdal A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of 'balance' and 'deterrence'.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Milan Kundera A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Bryce Courtenay Advertising was only meant to be a very small part of my life. I had intended that I would work extensively in journalism for about five or six years and then I'd become a writer.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Buddy Holly All of my love - all of my kissin' You don't know what you've been a-missin' Oh boy - when you're with me - oh boy The world will see that you were meant for me
    The Chirping Crickets (1957)
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  • Buddy Wakefield All these kids you can't seem to make any sense of would stop holding you so far off the edge of your seats if you'd start holding yourselves to the promises you make. We know you're not perfect because we're not. And I know I ain't perfect. But I believe I was meant to be.
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    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Lewis Carroll And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Bill Rodgers Anybody can be a runner... We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It's the easiest sport.
    Bill Rodgers
    American marathon athlete (1947 - )
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  • Barry White As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
    Barry White
    American singer-songwriter, record producer and composer (1944 - 2003)
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  • Bill Cosby As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my [younger] brother... Russel, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Brad Stone As we have seen again and again, when Amazon doesn't get the economic conditions from suppliers that it seeks, it simply goes its own way. In the book business, that has meant publishing its own titles under the various Kindle imprints. Now it's making diapers.
    Brad Stone
    American journalist (1971 - )
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  • Al Yankovic At this point I've got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when 'Weird Al' wants to go parody, it's not meant to make them look bad... it's meant to be a tribute.
    Al Yankovic
    American musician (1959 - )
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  • Friedrich Engels By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.
    Friedrich Engels
    German industrialist, philosopher and social scientist (1820 - 1895)
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier Clothe with life the weak intent, let me be the thing I meant.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Samuel Johnson Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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