All Quotes

What does it mean to a person whose identity is very wrapped up in the music she makes, if her worth is measured by how many records she sells?
‐‐ Juliana Hatfield

What does it mean to a successful woman today? Does it mean you have to be a mother? If you are a mother, does it mean you have to be a mother with a husband? If you don't have a husband, what is the role that the man plays? I think there are a lot of confusing things that we're all really still sorting out.
‐‐ Lisa Edelstein

What does it mean to be a conservative? I don't even know anymore. I know what it means to me. It means to me, personal responsibility. That if I've done something wrong, its up to me to pay the price. It's up to me to make it right.
‐‐ Glenn Beck

What does it mean to be a superhero? We're all fighting for the better good. But, at the same time, I think what stands out is, as superheroes, you don't give up; you don't surrender. I think that's what makes a superhero.
‐‐ Ellen Wong

What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.
‐‐ Ben Nelson

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?
‐‐ Leon Kass

What does it mean to be an oncologist? It means that you get to sit in at a moment of another person's life that is so hyper-acute, and not just because they're medically ill. It's also a moment of hope and expectation and concern.
‐‐ Siddhartha Mukherjee

What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.
‐‐ Julianna Baggott

What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like.
‐‐ Paul Mooney

What does it mean to have a Republican majority in the House? A lot of people think 'So what?' They should think again.
‐‐ Doug Ose

What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. Surely when you love your wife with all your heart, you cannot demean her, criticize her, find fault with her, or abuse her by words, sullen behavior, or actions.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.
‐‐ Jaron Lanier

What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?
‐‐ George Carlin

What does it mean to truly believe in America? To wave a flag? Or to struggle toward a more searching alternative to the shallowness of the flag-wavers - to criticize, to interrogate, to analyze, to dissent?
‐‐ Rick Perlstein

What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.
‐‐ Barbra Streisand

What does it mean with regard to tactics, this fact that the proletariat of Western Europe stands all alone: that it has no prospect of any help whatsoever from any other class?
‐‐ Herman Gorter

What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again?
‐‐ Mitt Romney

What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?
‐‐ Morley Safer

What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.
‐‐ Patty Berg

What does it take to be a great social chronicler? Perhaps one of the key attributes is an understanding of what it feels like to fall from grace.
‐‐ Tina Brown

What does it take to be the first female anything? It takes grit, and it takes grace.
‐‐ Meryl Streep

What does it take to get you to the point where you have to kill your brother? It's biblical, it's huge. It's so personal.
‐‐ Emilio Estevez

What does it take to win in New Hampshire? Grass roots and financial resources.
‐‐ Corey Lewandowski

What does it tell you that applications for guns since the shooting are up 41 percent in Colorado, and that our cameras found about 50 people in line at one gun shop yesterday outside Denver?
‐‐ Brian Williams

What does kissing really mean to me? To me, if you feel, when you kiss a girl, that certain feeling of all those dolphins, like, swimming through your blood stream, and you get those good tingles inside your stomach, I don't think there's any better feeling.
‐‐ Corey Haim

What does legacy mean? I never think or go there.
‐‐ Stewart Rahr

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
‐‐ Saint Augustine

What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.
‐‐ Erykah Badu

What does my performance have to do with Russell Crowe's? Nothing. If I play Gladiator and we all play Gladiator with Ridley Scott in the same amount of time, maybe we have a chance to see who did it best.
‐‐ Javier Bardem

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.
‐‐ Elie Wiesel

What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

What does 'Ngaio' mean? I don't know. Like many Maori words, it has a number of meanings - clever, light on the water, a little bug - but I don't know which my parents had in mind.
‐‐ Ngaio Marsh

What does old look like? Sometimes I am wrinkled, sometimes not.
‐‐ Maxine Hong Kingston

What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing.
‐‐ Dewitt Bodeen

What does 'politicizing intelligence' mean? Using intel, or more often, partial intel, to produce an effect in line with White House policies rather than giving a full picture of a particular situation.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.
‐‐ Pat Brown

What does that mean for a society, for a democracy, when the people that you elect on the basis of promises can basically suborn the will of the electorate?
‐‐ Edward Snowden

What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.
‐‐ Fernand Leger

What does that suggest when a compound this simple plays such an important role? To me it suggests that nitric oxide is one of the most primitive elements of cellular signaling, that it goes way back into evolution.
‐‐ Ferid Murad

What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.
‐‐ Anselm Kiefer

What does the doctrine of American exceptionalism empower the United States to do? Nothing more than to act better than traditional empires - committed to looting and conquest - have done. So that's American exceptionalism: an exceptionalism based on noble ideas, ideas that it holds itself to even when it falls short of them.
‐‐ Dinesh D'Souza

What does the future look like if the heads of society ask our young people to risk their lives for questionable causes? I think it looks rather bleak.
‐‐ Tracy Chapman

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
‐‐ Emile M. Cioran

What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!
‐‐ Georges Bernanos

What does 'work' mean in this 21st, ultra-wired century, with its exploding new industries, low barriers to entry and endless possibilities? Is technology making our lives more flexible - or our days more endless?
‐‐ Rachel Sklar

What doesn't allow us to move forward because when we simply - and I've seen it on social media; it really, really upsets me - is to get in our corners and call names and turn our back to each other.
‐‐ Benjamin Watson

What doesn't confuse me about what women wear? When it comes to women's fashion I'm so oblivious. I have no idea what's going on.
‐‐ Paul Wesley

What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else - when you want to be another person.
‐‐ Zoe Saldana

'What Doesn't Kill You' is a really great movie that was little seen but, I think, is one of my personal favorites.
‐‐ Mark Ruffalo

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I really believe that.
‐‐ Peter Scolari