Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
If there wasn’t struggle you would never grow. You would never become who you’re meant to be. And let’s be honest. It would also be… super boring both in movies and in life.
Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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.
I’m a big believer in everything meant to be. If it didn’t work out then, it’s fine.
Housefull 3′ is not meant to be taken seriously, but is meant to be laughed at.
I come from a Punjab and a community that has taught me that art is meant to be challenging, infuriating and thought provoking.
George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be. Wasn’t always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river.
The idea of taking classic American stories and reinterpreting them for a time and place is not just commercially viable. These stories also carry a sensual nature of what it meant to be an American, and they deserve to be reinterpreted.
A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.
Films are not meant to be watched only by fans but by everyone. Fans are those who like what we do. When we do things that only they like, then we are becoming their fans.
Life is meant to be enjoyed, not just endured.
One of my sons has a tattoo on his ankle that was meant to be Africa but looks like Australia, one of my sons mumbles, and one of my sons is a gay man. I’ll be honest, there’s been loads of nights when me and my wife have sat up and worried and worried and worried, ‘What are we going to do if he doesn’t stop mumbling?’
None of my heroes were big rock stars, and I thought, ‘This isn’t how it’s meant to be.’ It wasn’t about making music so much as selling it.
Bond was escapism, but not meant to be imitated in real life.
If I didn’t get a job, between 16 and 18, that wasn’t significant, I was just going to go to college. I didn’t want to be a struggling actor at 36 with five kids, doing something I hated. You see the story so much. It’s such a vicious business to be in when you’re not meant to be in it.
Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We’re not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We’re meant to be this way. It’s not our fault, it’s just who we are.
I don’t know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don’t cry. I say maybe it’s meant to be.
It was hugely helpful to me, being South African. I have never felt uncomfortable in posh society because I don’t see what it is that I’m meant to be bowing the knee about.
I was meant to be an actor, and I realised that only after my son was born.
In 2002, a Scottish journalist, during a dinner meant to be private, absolutely wanted me to react to Stephen Hawking’s comments. I said one shouldn’t pay too much attention to what Hawking was saying because he was a celebrity but not a specialist of elementary particle theory.
I don’t think that the next generation should fear just being who they are rather than confirming to an expectation of what they are meant to be.
I always figure hey, look, I’m not a rock star, I’m an actor. I’m somebody who’s meant to be other people and I’m not meant to be here representing myself. I’m happier when I’m presenting myself as other characters.
Some things, I think, like fairy books and secret doors, are only meant to be found by children.
Poets are not meant to be in competition.
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.
I came to the realisation, rather late in the day, that whatever your body’s meant to be, it will figure itself out.
I wasn’t cast to play the part of a paranormal investigator, like maybe some other shows out there. I believe it, and it’s my passion, and this is what I’m here to do in this life. I love it. It was just meant to be for me. It’s what I’m doing. This was my purpose.
Art is colourblind – the only colour thats meant to be in art is on the canvas.
Accolades and lists may tell us about accomplishments, but life is meant to be experienced, not just accomplished. It’s like the difference between reading books for the sake of reading and reading books just to get a good grade.
I experienced life in a struggling team at Eintracht Frankfurt, but I was still young then and didn’t understand what it meant to be relegated.
I’d love to have a really flourishing vegetable garden, and I’d love to have a better area for a rose garden or a cutting garden, but I don’t. You have to develop a garden in the way that it’s meant to be developed.
Sometimes my jokes are meant to be tasteless.
Humans need to touch each other. We need to look at each other… We are human creatures, meant to be linked… So, yes, it’s a gift for me to be able to look at somebody that I know or don’t know, that I love or maybe not love, and to be able to connect.
I have grown up being a father. When my first son was born I was 17. I was a child bringing up a child. I was not capable of understanding what a dad was meant to be.
I think, with my own daughters, rather than preaching a feminine agenda, I just really try to help them understand what it meant to be a woman in the late 20th century and the consciousness of how to be a woman in the 21st century: What is working for you and what is working against you.
I know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we’re fine with it.
Great brands are meant to be great aggregators.
Because of ‘World War Z’ and ‘The Walking Dead,’ I can’t pitch a modest little zombie film which is meant to be sociopolitical.
I think we are all individuals at the end of the day. There’s nothing about culture that can prescribe who you’re meant to be.
To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness. Your parents should hate it.
‘Legion’ is meant to be a show that is a state of mind. But the problem with TV is that there are commercials. There’s a hypnotic quality to the way we put it together. I need to get you out of your life in the first seven minutes of that show.
My humor isn’t meant to be mean or hurt anyone. But it’s to make them uncomfortable and laugh. I like making people feel a different range of emotions. I like to make people a bit confused.
Music is liquid. It’s meant to be messed with and played with and stretched and pulled and pushed, I think.
I think my level of cuisine was pretty good even before I came to France, but it’s the wine here that’s really improved my palette – when I have it, anyway. It’s meant to be good for you, right?
I was made exactly the way I was meant to be made in who I am and my personality and the way I was born.
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 always take kind of a zen view of casting and I really don’t remember people who passed. I kind of turn it over to the universe and figure, ‘Wow, I guess that wasn’t meant to be.’ It doesn’t sit with me.
Then I was actually meant to be going home but for some reason I decided to extend for a week. Then on the final day by extension, finally an audition came through, and it was ‘Into the Badlands’.
I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we’re trying to think about.
I wanted to do something as an extension of my passion for music. My aim for the STREET by 50 On-Ear Wired Headphone range is to present music as it’s meant to be heard, in studio-mastered sound.
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.
I’ve witnessed the survival of the theatre several times when it was meant to be dying.
I don’t want to be equal to a man. We are different and are meant to be that way. Women are more resilient than men. I thrive on the difference between a man and a woman and love a well-behaved man opening doors for me and a certain amount of caring that happens.
Video games are meant to be just one thing: Fun! Fun for everyone.
I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your head is left free.
Respectfully, ‘Awkward Black Girl’ was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance.
I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.
I’m quite physical. I’m from one of those dog-walking families where hiking up a mountain is meant to be fun.
Advertising was only meant to be a very small part of my life. I had intended that I would work extensively in journalism for about five or six years and then I’d become a writer.
