Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miguel

I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else.

Mika

Some people say I've got a five-octave range, which is ridiculous. That would mean I'd sing like Mariah Carey or that alien in 'The Fifth Element.' And I'm nothing like that blue alien. I've got a range of about 3 1/2 octaves.

Kumi Naidoo

Whenever anybody called Nelson Mandela a saint, he would say: "If by saint you mean a sinner who is trying to be better, then I'm a saint."

Kumi Naidoo

Many people theorize poverty, but so many elements of poverty, individually, for most people who theorize about poverty would be really difficult to even comprehend the individual things. Just take homelessness. If you are homeless, what does it mean not to have a post box where people can contact you; what does it mean not knowing where you're going to sleep at the end of the day; what does it mean not having a place where you can store what little you might possess. So dealing with homelessness in itself is a huge thing for most people who are commentators [on] or benefactors to poverty.

Kumail Nanjiani

Just because you saw a vampire doesn't mean that a snowman or a Loch Ness Monster also exists.

Kirk Hammett

I think the whole concept behind lyrics is you better mean what you say, or you should like, become a storyteller. I mean, there's a lot of bands who are just storytellers, and then there are bands who actually have something valid to say. And the bands who have valid points are few and far between.

Kirk Hammett

Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.

Kirk Douglas

Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.

Kirsten Dunst

If you're successful at a young age, no matter the profession, there has to come a time when you reevaluate everything, what it means to you. 'Is this what I want to do for the rest of my life?'

Kirsten Dunst

It's interesting to watch people go through it in something like this. I mean, what other [then Melancholia] films do they portray depression in?

Kirsten Dunst

Everybody has a mean streak in them, don't they?

Kirsten Dunst

I don't think that this movie is the kind of movie that a magazine like In Touch even cares about, if you know what I mean. It's a Lars von Trier film. They care about Moneyball, not Melancholia. They care about what I wear to Melancholia premieres; they don't really care about a Lars von Trier film.

Kirsten Dunst

You know how people say awards don't mean anything? Hello! I think the energy around them makes everyone cuckoo.

Kirsten Dunst

I mean look at Antichrist. He's not making films to be liked by everyone, so why is this so surprising coming from Lars von Trier?

Kimberly Willis Holt

Some people are just afraid of what's different. It doesn't mean different is bad. It just means different is different.

Kim Wilde

Being blonde now doesn't mean Marilyn Monroe vulnerability. Blonde in the Eighties means being in control.

Kim Campbell

For too many, to work means having less income.

Kevin Harrington

Being born into poverty does not mean you are condemned to spend the rest of your life in poverty.

Kevin Costner

I like being around people that mean what they say.

Kenneth Rexroth

The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained.

Kathie Lee Gifford

Just because I'm happy doesn't mean I'm shallow.

Kathleen Parker

For justice to have any meaning, it must also mean that no innocent person should ever be executed...

Kathleen Norris

The very nature of marriage means saying yes before you know what it will cost. Though you may say the “I do” of the wedding ritual in all sincerity, it is the testing of that vow over time that makes you married.

Kathleen Hanna

I don't think I've ever had a woman yell that at me, but women have yelled mean things at me as well.

Kathleen Hanna

I don't like every other musician's work. The same way that filmmakers don't like every other filmmakers' work. Just because I'm a feminist doesn't mean I'm gonna say that I like every other woman's work, or that I appreciate another statement that another woman publicly made.

Kathleen Hanna

I think one things that's really important in the boy community or whatever, or the boy things, is like, to realize that oppression is a two-way street. You know what I mean? That it's like, white men are really missing out - I don't wanna say white men are oppressed but...

Kathleen Hanna

Just because I'm a woman doesn't mean I'm the same as every other female singer.

Karl Marx

In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Karl Marx

Nature is man's inorganic body -- that is to say, nature insofar as it is not the human body. Man lives from nature -- i.e., nature is his body -- and he must maintain a continuing dialogue with it is he is not to die. To say that man's physical and mental life is linked to nature simply means that nature is linked to itself, for man is a part of nature.

Karl Marx

[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose truth we are wholly convinced, one that offers us largest scope in working for humanity and approaching that general goal towards which each profession offers only one of the means: the goal of perfection ... If he works only for himself he can become a famous scholar, a great sage, an excellent imaginative writer [ Dichter ], but never a perfected, a truly great man.

Karl Marx

Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.

Karl Marx

The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under it. Centralisation of the means of production and socialisation of labour at last reach a point where they become incompatible with there capitalist integument. This integument is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated.

Karl Marx

The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.