The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I'm changing into the woman I am meant to be.

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

So often, grooming is meant to make you feel better about yourself, and a lot of times, we use it to make ourselves feel worse.

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do.

If a great part comes up and the guy's meant to have an Eastern European accent, great; but if it's a bad part I won't take it.

For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me.

My ever-present mania meant I was never phased by staying up twenty hours a day or by the different time zones. I was Superman.

I learned to embrace my individuality, and if that meant writing a song on one chord over and over again, then that's what I do.

Every game I've ever played, regardless if it was pre-season or Super Bowl, meant the same to me, and I laid it all on the line.

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

Superheroes are the best of us. Never mind all those powers or the crazy costumes. The heart of a superhero is meant to inspire.

You can do anything as long as you don't stop believing. When it is meant to be, it will be. You just have to follow your heart.

And if you stop and think about it you won't believe it's true: That all the love you've been giving has all been meant for you.

Baking's meant to be done at home. It's meant to be a good time. It's not about, like, hoarding secrets. It's about sharing them.

I never feel any pressure about a film. What is meant to happen will happen. I have seen failure as well as success several times.

I was a musical theatre kid, which meant you could always find me singing or dancing in the halls with at least four other people.

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.

I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.

My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.

Our longing for immortality is good! It was put there on purpose. We were meant - from the moment of our creation - to live forever.

Kurt Vonnegut said, 'The best of Bob and Ray is virtually indistinguishable from the worst.' I'm sure he meant that as a compliment.

I don't understand why some people get access to the universe and other people feel like they're meant to just be stagnant and fail.

Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys.

I am a new man, and the man you see before you is the one I was always meant to be. This decision to be sober is a lifetime decision.

I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.

Trophies and medals have never meant much to me. I've had amazing experiences, which let you feel like you've accomplished something.

I always knew I wanted to be a doctor, but I also knew that being a doctor meant more than treating just the patient in front of you.

It's not like being a writer is a very lucrative career, but you know, you just know when you've found what you're really meant to do.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

All my siblings being all different ages meant I got exposed to music that was 20-30 years older than me. And that was a big influence.

I went through a training camp; I worked extremely hard. I prepared for UFC 200. This was the big one. This one meant everything to me.

My mother picked my name with a spiritual intention: Destiny, 'what was meant to be.' She was a very special woman, and a gifted witch.

It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.

I grew up in a neighborhood with blacks and Puerto Ricans and Italians, the whole gamut, so conveying unity has always meant a lot to me.

I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It's not meant to be listened to that way.

After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be.

I had a beautiful relationship with Auba. Too bad it only lasted a year. For me, a guy coming from Evreux, meeting Aubameyang meant a lot.

Food is meant to be used as fuel for our bodies. If you're using it for any other reasons, take a step back and ask yourself, 'What's up.'

I loved Wimbledon and what it meant, but the surface felt uncomfortable. I just didn't like it, I was a hard-court guy, a Californian kid.

When greeting Pope Benedict a few years ago, I was meant to kiss the papal ring but I head-butted his hand instead. He just laughed at me.

It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it, the way of the philosopher.

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me.

Wear your clothes with abandon, I say; don't keep them pristine as if for museums: They are meant to wear out. Then you get to buy new ones.

One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness.

All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

My mum used to always say to me, 'What's meant for you won't pass you by,' and it's true. If I didn't get something, it wasn't meant for me.

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