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Ice T Rapper, Actor
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"There was a time when people would go search out underground records. Now, underground means free, and people don't really care for it. So now artists tend to go more pop and look for the radio. You know, the radio never wanted you to speak about anything, so the music is kinda influenced by the hands of the radio which wants to homogenize it and dilute it and sanitize it. And for the most part, nobody's takin' the time to seek out the cats that are still tryin' to talk, so they have a difficult time being heard, like Chuck D said."

Mean Artist Cat
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Ice T Rapper, Actor
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"I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week."

Mean Easy Week
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Hal Whitehead Biologist
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"What I mean is, if you look at the behavior of an animal and ask, "Well, why did it do that?" and then consider the alternatives, those alternatives probably wouldn't be as successful at getting its genes around."

Mean Animal Successful
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Hal Whitehead Biologist
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"Conversation with animals could happen, but I think it would be easier for it to happen with creatures we share a bit more with - those that have been bred to interact with us, like dogs or horses, or ones to whom we have a natural evolutionary link, like chimps and other nonhuman apes. I mean, we do communicate with dolphins and whales, but we're not trying to get to the depths of their understandings. I feel that with animals as different from us as the whales and dolphins, it's likely to work better with us just watching them and trying to figure them out."

Mean Dog Horse
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Hal Whitehead Biologist
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"What I mean by it, and roughly what most biologists who talk about culture mean by it, is either behavior itself, or information that leads to behavior. Information that is picked up through social learning - so, from being with, watching, being taught by others. It's a way that individuals behave or get information about how they will behave that comes directly from the behavior of others."

Mean Culture Behavior
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Hank Green Entrepreneur, Author, YouTuber
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"What does it mean that social structures among young people are so often predicated upon trying really, really hard to appear to not-be-trying?"

People Mean Trying
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Galileo Galilei Astronomer, Physicist
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"If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your philosophers, poets, and historians, this will mean nothing and we must believe their words rather than our own eyes?"

Believe Mean Eye
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Zoe Weil Educator
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"In order to align your life choices with your values, you will need to inquire about the effects of your actions (and inactions) on yourself and others. Although we are always stumbling upon new knowledge that shifts our choices and life direction, bringing conscious inquiry to life means that we continually ask questions that lead us to the information we need to make thoughtful decisions. Asking questions is liberating because we develop great understanding and discover more choices with our new knowledge"

Mean Thoughtful Asking Questions
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Zola Jesus Musician, singer-songwriter
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"I feel like humans are a disease. It's a hard thing to communicate in a pop song. I mean, who wants to hear that?"

Mean Song Disease
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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"Strength times strength times strength times strength times strength times strength means power."

Mean Inspiring
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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"Can you see me? Can you hear me? Does anything I say mean anything to you?"

Mean Doe
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Orhan Pamuk Novelist, Screenwriter
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"Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to kill each other--or kill ourselves."

People Mean Dream
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Natalie Portman Actress, Director, Producer
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"I think you always need to be able to relate to your characters, but that doesn't necessarily mean...you have to understand why they do what they do, but you don't actually have to be like that yourself."

Thinking Mean Character
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Nate Parker Actor, Director, Producer
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"The crazy thing is a lot of people - a lot of men, if I'm just speaking for myself - don't really start thinking about the effect of hyper-masculinity and false definitions of what it means to be a man until you get married or until you have kids. Because then all of sudden you have something to protect."

Mean Kids Crazy
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Malcolm Gladwell Journalist, Author
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"There are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can offer a much better means of making sense of the world."

Mean Stress First Impression
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Malcolm D. Lee Film Director
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"Half the audience gets where I'm coming from and half the audience is like, "Wait a minute. What does that mean?""

Mean Doe Waiting
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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
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"For one to control one's thoughts and feelings means one can actually control one's atmosphere and all who walk into its sphere of influence."

Mean Feelings Atmosphere
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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
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"I don't trust any white man who teaches Negroes to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent, which means to be defenseless in the face of a very brutal, criminal enemy. No. That's my yardstick for measuring whites."

Men Mean White Man
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