A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don’t mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it’s a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.

I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened. We have not seen them able to conduct any kind of organized attack to regain any territory that they’ve lost. We’ve seen levels...

It took me a few years to explain to my colleagues and my mentors and the people that I looked up to and I wrestled that I’m not in wrestling anymore. I’m in sports entertainment....

Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That’s a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach...

I have a deep-down belief that there are folks in the world who are good through and through, and others who came in mean and will go out mean. It’s like coffee. Once it’s roasted,...

Marley is someone before his time, man. He’s – he’s almost – he’s like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean? I just talk about what’s going on, but of course, you know,...

We often hear that people mean well: that so many just don’t how to interact with people with disabilities. They’re unsure of the ‘right’ reaction, so they default to condescension that makes them feel better...

Pau is one of the best big men in the game. I mean, Pau Gasol is going to be in the Hall of Fame.

I mean, gosh, my first tours I ever did were with the Ramones and Iggy Pop and Love & Rockets.

The horror aspect, the scary parts, are easy for me. I mean, I can get into that pretty easy, because I get scared. You have to invest yourself in these characters.

I don’t think I am that tough, actually. Well, tough in the sense that I don’t take any rubbish, and that doesn’t make me very popular, frankly. I mean, because some people say something to...

Oh my goodness, they are rocking so many variations of my high-top fade. I mean, Rihanna has taken it to a very angular 21st Century thing. Miss Fantasia has it in a very seductive, you...

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don’t get any patients.

You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don’t even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?

Age doesn’t mean anything. Its all in your head. Men get sexier with age. They also get wiser and get experienced.

Maskini mwenye pesa nyingi ni tajiri bahili. Tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka ni tajiri badhiri.

Technically speaking, you can build anything out of sand; it doesn’t mean you do it.

It really does mean so much when your cast mates, who you respect so much, tell you that you made them laugh.

Being a leader doesn’t mean you are the guy who runs things.

I love watching American League games, you know what I mean?

I’m like a little kid when it comes to music. I mean, the music is always blasting wherever I am that people always knock on my door and say, ‘It’s too loud!’ But I think...

In terms of theater, there’s not a more supportive theater community than in New York. It’s really kind of a real thrill to go there. I mean, don’t forget, I’m a boy from the suburbs...

Dividing into teams doesn’t necessarily mean denigrating others. Studies of groupishness have generally found that groups increase in-group love far more than they increase out-group hostility.

Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.

I mean, I spent 30 years in the world of physical perfection, right? I’ve known most of the world’s most perfect physical specimens over the course of the last 30 years.

For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other’s rights.

Well, he can’t be dumb, I mean, because he’s been president for four years and he’s president again, so you’re going to get caught out if you’re really bad, aren’t you? Unless millions and millions...

Cranking the Auto-Tune is so easy to do that there’s almost no systemic resistance to trying it. So when someone’s stuck for an idea, that’s what they do. I mean, to the extent that it’s...

I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don’t mean one who’s polished, I just mean one who’s through.

Just because you’ve got a hit doesn’t mean you’ve made it.

Television itself is an intimate medium. It’s in your house. You’re visiting with these people… Not everybody’s going to like it, just like not everybody likes everybody on the playground. I mean, that’s life –...

I’ve worked with some terrific actors. The list of guys that came on the ‘Columbo’ show, I mean they were world-class actors from all over the world – Oskar Werner, Laurence Harvey, Donald Pleasence, you...

I love sitting through long things. I mean, ‘Gone With the Wind’ I will sit through; I love sitting somewhere for four hours, for anything. I love being on a train. I love sitting down...

I mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.

I’m big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you’re big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood.

I definitely am a performer, and there are different styles of stand-up; I mean, some people are writers and they get onstage to get jokes out, and that’s definitely not what I do. I like...

One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don’t mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you...

Muscle is constantly being used – constantly being damaged. If every time we tore a muscle or every time we stretched a muscle or moved in a wrong way, cancer occurred – I mean, everybody...

I mean, there’s a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don’t do it through music.

Words only make sense when the person who says them means a lot.

The nonphysical law allows you to use nonphysical causes to create nonphysical effects and also physical effects. This does not mean that you are not in control of what you create. On the contrary! It...

There are some teams and logos you see, no matter where you are in the world, and you know exactly who they are and what they mean.

The end of the trial and the ‘not guilty’ verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.

I’m interested in asking: ‘What does feminine energy mean?’ I don’t have answers – I just have questions and interesting examples.

People are only mean when they’re threatened, and that’s what our culture does. That’s what our economy does.

Yeah, I mean I’m a water sign. I’m a Pisces.

And you finally get to a consensus, where you get a sense of what really ought to be done, and then they give it to me and then I draw it. I mean draw it...

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he’s ever read, and another person will say it’s absolutely idiotic. I mean, there’s no way to reconcile those...

If he is a ghost, then it’s very disappointing for me, because he is banished in the story, and that could mean that he won’t be coming back, and that would be terrible, wouldn’t it?