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Quotes About Mean

The best part of working on 'Baywatch' is to be the villain of the movie. I don't think The Rock, aka Dwayne Johnson, has ever had anyone who's been mean to him.
~ Priyanka Chopra
The villain is usually the most interesting part. But it has to be a smart thing. Just dumb cliche villains with a Russian accent and big muscles and a mean face, I don't know. My Russian accent isn't that great, and the muscles aren't that big and the mean face is not enough. You know what I mean? It gets very boring. Tedious stuff.
~ Christoph Waltz
Heathcliff. The "hero" of Wuthering Heights. Although no one knows why. He's mean, moody, and possibly a bit on the pongy side. Cathy loves him, though. She shows this by viciously rejecting him and marrying someone else for a laugh. Still, that is true love on the moors for you.
~ Louise Rennison
Keav tells me the soldiers claim to love Cambodia and its people very much. I wonder then why they are this mean if they love us so much
~ Loung Ung
I honestly can't tell if [she's] being intentionally mean or is she's truly that stupid.
~ Jodi Picoult
Ever notice how Christians quote the Old Testament more then the New Testament? That's so they can say mean things, talk bad about the queers and such. New Testament, that's the Christian book. The stuff in red, that's Jesus talk. That's what they're supposed to live their life by, but, no, they like the God of the Old Testament, the mean, judgmental one, before he was on Zoloft.
~ joe r lansdale
Listen, listen, if I know my world, which is doubtful, but if I do, I know it is chaotic, mean and vicious, with laws cast in the wrong moulds, a fair conception gone awry, in short an awful place, and yet, and yet a place capable of glory in those rare moments when a little light breaks forth, and something is not explained, not forgiven, but merely illuminated.
~ John Banville
The most important of these rules is the first one: the eternal law of reversion to the mean (RTM) in the financial markets.
~ John C. Bogle
Mean is easy. Mean is lazy. Mean is self-satisfied and slothful.
~ Jake Tapper
This is how Hillary conducts government policy. She is ruthless, she is grasping, she appears to have little empathy or concern for people. She is old, and mean, and even her laugh is a witch's cackle. There is almost nothing appealing about her. How, then, could she be the first choice of progressive Democrats and the apparent frontrunner for winning the presidency in November 2016?
~ Dinesh D'Souza
Neil is wearing a coat such as I never saw in my life before: checked back and front, but plain sleeves. Perhaps it was made out of two old coats – though I hope not, as that would show him to be poor and his brother mean. And it looked rather a noisily new coat. I expect it's just American.
~ Dodie Smith
You're nasty and you're loud, you're mean enough for two, If I could be a cloud, I'd rain all day on you.
~ Jack Prelutsky
We were a roiling mass of opinion, most of it mean. Here we sat at civilization's technological peak, and what we chose to do on that shining pinnacle was hate each other's guts.
~ Lydia Millet
Your intended?" Dakota demanded. "You mean to say he already had a mate staked out and he's been encroaching on my preserve?
~ Unknown
Unfortunately, a lot of liberals seem to choose what policies to support based on whether they make them feel nice or mean, instead of whether they work.
~ John Hawkins
Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.
~ Chuck Berry
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
~ Aristotle
The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.
~ Major Owens
Reality is just a nice way of saying "tragedy." The truth is, people are vain and mean!
~ Unknown
Of all the mean and wicked things a landlord can do, shutting up his footpath is the nastiest.
~ John Ruskin
Ford regarded him levelly for five seconds or so, then said, "Now you're fuckin' with me. You think I'm goofy, too. I admit, it could turn out that way. New generation—could be all sweetness and light. That's not the way I see it, though. A rising tide of mean little fascist rats, is what I see.
~ John Sandford
I strongly suggest not trying that attitude with the crew, either." "Why? Because it would be mean?" "No, because they'll break a butter knife off in your neck.
~ John Scalzi
Which one of you tased Dave?" The one directly in front of us asked. "That was me," Niamh said. "That was mean. He's new. Barely above an intern.
~ John Scalzi
Behind him hobbled Granma, who had survived only because she was as mean as her husband. She had held her own with a shrill ferocious religiosity that was as lecherous and as savage as anything Grampa could offer. . . As she walked she hiked her Mother Hubbard up to her knees, and she bleated her shrill terrible war cry: Pu-raise Gawd fur vittory.
~ John Steinbeck