Figure Quotes

• I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Help
  • Story
  • My Life

• If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and figure out the character.

  

  Zach Woods
  • Character
  • Comedy
  • Helps

• My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life. So he's kind of been that mom and father figure - always.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Father

• When my agents tell me how much I'm going to be paid for a film, instead of quoting a figure, they'll say: 'You're going to make ten pairs of Christian Louboutins.'

  

  Kate Mara
  • Me
  • Film
  • Say

• I think Lena Dunham, the public figure, is - I hate the word 'brand,' but I'm going to use it - it's such a brand that is so tethered to her public persona and to 'Girls', but also this progressive politics that she's been more vocal about.

  

  Jenny Zhang
  • Politics
  • Public
  • Brand

• There are times I can't even figure myself out.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Myself
  • Times
  • Figure

• My passion for 'Star Trek' is actually rooted in my love of television and the art of franchise and a premise designed to stick people together that have to figure out what to do.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • People
  • Art
  • Passion

• I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • People
  • Search
  • Figure

• I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene….No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Feeling
  • Jesus
  • Gospels

• If anyone can crack the publicity nut and figure out how to not come across hammy and contrived, I'd love to talk to them.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Come
  • Publicity
  • Contrived

• The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an impressive figure.

  

  Denise Duhamel
  • Community
  • Particular
  • Poems

• When I first started I didn't know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire, ya know? It was hit and miss, I made mistakes, and fortunately I was able to recover from most of 'em. But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that's trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Trying
  • Job
  • Help

• I can go into a restaurant; I might have to go a few times, taste something, love it and figure out exactly what is in there, and go home and duplicate it.

  

  Tamala Jones
  • Home
  • Taste
  • Exactly

• I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Long
  • Door
  • Locks

• There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Question
  • Strongly
  • Adored

• I quit drinking, and I figure if I go to ten Yankee games this year without drinking I'll save $32,000.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Games
  • Drinking
  • Yankee

• The thing I can't figure out is why I have an undeniable compulsion to clean public spaces, airplane bathrooms, restaurant flatware, hotel gyms and Chapstick containers... yet I have no desire to make my own bed. Ever. Seriously, who made me, and where am I from?

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Desire
  • Bed
  • Seriously

• We're all here to figure out how to best give ourselves away.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Best
  • Away
  • Figure

• One of the biggest lessons I've learned recently is that when you don't know what to do, you should do nothing until you figure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the wall, and you've got to make a decision. You never have to do anything. Don't know what to do? Do nothing.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Decision
  • Wall
  • Lessons

• At first I was supposed to be the funny central figure, ... But with that format the show might have lasted about four weeks. The way it worked out is, the other people say the funny lines and my character looks on as an observer.

  

  Andy Griffith
  • People
  • Character
  • Funny

• I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand your gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you... to make each day count.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Life
  • Hand
  • Count

• I've always been a tapper, as in, on tables, school desks, my legs and chest. I've eventually been able to figure out how to move that to the guitar.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • American
  • Musician
  • Move

• Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Heart
  • Action
  • Plastic

• Some people have suggested looking at additional ways to fund pool elements. At this point in time, these are not in place. I have to manage the $1.5-million as best I can. Right now my main priority is to figure out funding at hand and focus on the outside pool.

  

  Doug Jackson Ambrosia
  • Focus
  • Best
  • Fund

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