5,159 Quotes About Mean


  • Author Dick Cheney
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    I'm often asked why I left politics and went to Halliburton and I explain that I reached the point where I was mean-spirited, short-tempered and intolerant of those who disagreed with me and they said 'Hell, you'd make a great CEO', so I went to Texas and joined the private sector.

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  • Author Diablo Cody
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    I didn't even know how to talk to people, I didn't know how to talk to the press. I was just a jester. And I still feel that way. But, I mean, what haven't I learned? Everything that I know is new information because I was starting with nothing.

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  • Author Dick Cheney
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    The important thing here to understand is that the people that are at Guantanamo are bad people. I mean, these are terrorists for the most part.

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  • Author Dick Cheney
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    I mean, it's not just one day you get up, bang, and you got Osama bin Laden. It's the kind of thing where an awful lot of people over a long period of time - thousands have worked this case and these issues and followed on the leads and captured bad guys and interrogated them and so-forth.

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  • Author Douglas Coupland
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    I say ‘Uhmm...’ a lot. I mentioned this to Karla and she says it’s a CPU word. It means you’re assembling data in your head - spooling.

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  • Author Douglas Coupland
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    Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.

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  • Author Dustin Clare
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    New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work, like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone.

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  • Author Edgar Cayce
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    Astrology is a fact, in most instances. But astrological aspects are but signs, symbols. No influence is of greater value or of greater help than the will of an individual.... Do not attempt to be guided by, but use the astrological influences as the means to meet or to overcome the faults and failures, or to minimize the faults and to magnify the virtues in self.

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