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Emma Watson Actress, Activist
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"Social media, it's a minefield! Technology is moving so fast right now. Everyone is scrambling around trying to understand what it means to have an avatar, how to live our lives on the internet, what it means for privacy, for citizens of a political universe. I think that we're trying to find rules now, as we speak, and it's difficult. But, like everything, the internet is an incredibly powerful force that needs governing - not to restrict our freedom, but to protect people."

Mean Moving Powerful
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Emma Watson Actress, Activist
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"Ive never understood having crushes on people who you dont know in real life. I only crush on people I meet. I mean, I can appreciate that someone is good-looking, obviously, but I dont intend to fantasize about people I dont know!"

Mean Real Crush
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Emma Stone Actress
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"My mom lost her dad at a very young age, and has this sort of belief system of, you know, "If there's something that you want to do, if there's something that means a lot to you, do it now.""

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Emma Stone Actress
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"There's no right way. There's no measurement system. That's why, you know, art competitions are a little confusing to me. I mean, they're lovely, but so many people are affected by different people and different things in such different ways. And yeah, it's immeasurable."

People Mean Art
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Erich Fromm Psychologist, Philosopher
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"The history of man so far is nothing to brag about, from the standpoint of our ideas - and what I mean is, that in comparison with most other societies, our present-day American society has achieved things which are remarkable: material wealth, greater than for any other nation; a relative freedom from oppression; a relative mobility; a spreading of art, of music, of thought, which is also rather unique."

Mean Art Unique
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Esther Hicks Author, Speaker
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""Ask, and it is given" means that whether you are a full blossoming genius human, or whether you are the one-celled amoeba in the ocean, or a cell in one of your bodies, when it is concluded that something else is preferred (no matter how developed the consciousness is) every time a preference is noted, Nonphysical Energy rushes forth to answer it. It is the promise of our evolving beingness."

Mean Ocean Cells
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Etta James Singer
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"I was originally like a punker, know what I mean, like the punks are today, I'd spit in a minute."

Mean Today Punk
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Ezra Pound Poet, Critic
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"I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion."

Mean Years America
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Dana Hill Actress
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"If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best!"

Mean Winning Cutting
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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life."

Mean Energy Special
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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"There is, how­ever, a strong empir­i­cal rea­son why we should cul­ti­vate thoughts that can never be proved. It is that they are known to be use­ful. Man pos­i­tively needs gen­eral ideas & con­vic­tions that will give a mean­ing to his life & enable him to find a place for him­self in the uni­verse. He can stand the most incred­i­ble hard­ships when he is con­vinced that they make sense; he is crushed when on top of all his mis­for­tunes, he has to admit that he is tak­ing part in a ‘tale told by an idiot.’"

Mean Strong Son
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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"We cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such events do not exist."

Mean Doe Events
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Carl Honore Author and Speaker
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"Everywhere, people are discovering that doing things more slowly often means doing them better and enjoying them more. It means living life instead of rushing through it. You can apply this to everything from food to parenting to work."

Mean Live Life Rushing
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