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Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?
Eddie Van Halen

Knows, Maybe, Imagine

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.
Haruki Murakami

War, Father, Wanted

I hit the ground running, without a lot of training, so I had to do whatever I could do to survive as a professional, and if that meant being that character 24/7 and acting out, I was going to do that. I lived those characters, I brought them home with me.
Nicolas Cage

Home, Character, Training

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
George A. Sheehan

Success, Courage, Person

If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.
Adam Carolla

Women, Done, Build

At this point I've got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when 'Weird Al' wants to go parody, it's not meant to make them look bad... it's meant to be a tribute.
Al Yankovic

Bad, Point, Realize

And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily.
Giovanni Agnelli

Plan, State, General

I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.
Shirley Manson

Women, Pretty, Sing

All minorities think they're immune, but we're absolutely part of the one in five that gets skin cancer! It's a myth, and myths are meant to be debunked!
Gabrielle Union

Cancer, Five, Skin

We went from an era when rock 'n' roll meant wearing a bustier as a woman and these spandex things and guys trying to portray someone that wasn't realistic. We are trying to make it seem real... relate to our lives.
Eddie Vedder

Rock, Someone, Woman

Being at a club that supported me meant a lot.
David Beckham

Club, Supported

The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver's permits, the coolest thing one could do was stand outside after school and twirl one's car keys like a lifeguard whistle. That jingling sound meant freedom and power.
Sloane Crosley

Power, Freedom, Car

At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now.
David R. Brower

Time, Problem, Energy

I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.
Michael Sheen

Her, Growing, Daughter

With 'Believe' bringing really big success for me outside of the U.K. for the first time, it meant I have been touring around the world and that led to a gap from the studio. I really feel like the gap has done me the world of good. Throughout that time I was able to collect songs that I really loved.
Katherine Jenkins

Success, Time, Good

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.
Gustav Mahler

Music, Small, Space

I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.
Karl Rove

Said, Become, Insult

When people told me 'It's great to be here', they meant at the house, not with me.
Rahm Emanuel

Great, Here, House

My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious.
Harrison Ford

Character, Nothing, Kids

Communism was meant to be an alternative religion.
David Miliband

Religion, Communism

I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.
Jennifer Garner

Movies, Play, Television

Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.
River Phoenix

Best, Children, Words

While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.
Roger Zelazny

We don't ask research to do what it was never meant to do, and that is to get an idea.
William Bernbach

Idea, Research, Ask

The thing that made Groucho special was the way he used his body parts. He also had a wicked tongue. People didn't realize it, but when Groucho said something, he meant it.
Sidney Sheldon

Made, Special, Said

As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
Barry White

Time, Freedom, America

Bond was escapism, but not meant to be imitated in real life.
Roger Moore

Life, Real, Bond

The mistake I really learned from was in 2005, leading the Indianapolis 500. I had a decision whether or not to save enough fuel to finish the race - which meant slowing down - or going all-out for the win. I went conservative and saved enough fuel to go to the end but finished fourth.
Danica Patrick

End, Decision, Win

Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.
Al Yankovic

Music, Hate, Anybody

While I was trying to save money to go to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia I ended up getting all of this experience which meant that by the time I had enough money in the bank to go to school I didn't really need to go to school anymore.
Russell Crowe

Time, Money, Art

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