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Charles Lloyd Jazz Musician
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"I dream of a peaceful world. Music is the best means I have to work on that dream. Each time I have the opportunity to play, it is another chance to tell the truth. Life on the planet has come down to such an acute degree of ADD it is terrifying. We are constantly being bombarded from all directions with information - most of it useless that serves to bifurcate the mind. I am afraid that people are going to go from birth to death and never know they were here or why they were here."

Mean Dream Opportunity
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Chinua Achebe Novelist, Poet
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"My books have done extremely well, I know. But I don't honestly feel much different from when I began to write. I still think we have a long way to go. I suppose my name means more in Nigeria today than it did five years ago. But I feel the job that literature should do in our community has not even started. It's not yet part of the life of the nation. We are still at the beginning. It's a big beginning, because now we are catching the next generation in the schools. When I was their age, I had nothing to read that had any relevance to my own environment."

Mean Book Jobs
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Clint Eastwood Actor, Director, Producer
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"What Trump is onto is, he's just saying what's on his mind. And sometimes it's not so good. And sometimes it's... I mean, I can understand where he's coming from, but I don't always agree with it."

Mean Mind Sometimes
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Coco Chanel Fashion Designer
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"A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the movement of the arms, the legs, and the waist."

Mean Beautiful Fashion
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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"When I say "an energy miracle," I mean that there will be some form of energy whose 24 hour cost really is competitive with hydrocarbons given, say, 20 years of learning curve. You invent it, then you look at how much its costs go down over the next 20 years, that it really beats hydrocarbons."

Mean Years Curves
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Bill Hicks Comedian, Writer
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"We are losing the 'War on Drugs,' which means there's a war going on and people on drugs are winning it."

Mean War Winning
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Bruce Dickinson Musician, Author, Pilot
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"I guess it was the first time I really thought about leaving. I don't just mean Iron Maiden, I mean quitting music altogether. I just thought, 'Nothing is worth feeling like this for.' I began to feel like I was a piece of machinery, like I was part of the lighting rig."

Mean Leaving Iron
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Bruce Lee Martial Artist, Actor, Director
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"I don't believe in different ways of fighting now. I mean, unless human beings have 3 arms and 3 legs, then we will have a different way of fighting. But basically we all have two arms and two legs so that is why I believe there should be only one way of fighting and that is no way."

Believe Mean Inspiring
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Billy Wilder Film Director, Screenwriter
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"Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting."

Men Mean Interesting
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Andrei Tarkovsky Film Director, Screenwriter
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"When less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further. The alternative is for the audience to be presented with a final deduction (...) no effort on their part. What can it mean to them when they have not shared with the author the misery and joy of bringing an image into being?"

Thinking Mean Effort
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Anita Hill Law Professor and Activist
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"If I can mean to people - if I can symbolize the ability to pursue gender equality, racial equality, and to be truthful about our experiences, then, absolutely, that's what I want to be."

People Mean Want
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery Writer, Aviator
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"Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our technical advancement, confuse means and ends. Naturally a person that only works for material gain will not harvest something that is worth living for. But the machine is not an end in itself. The airplane is not an end. It is a tool. Just like the plough."

People Mean Airplane
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