Figure Quotes

• 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

• 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

• Figure out who you are.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • You
  • Figure
  • Out

• 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

• McCain is the most unifying figure in the Senate. Barack Obama is so far left. Turning to her co-host, Joy Behar, an Obama supporter, she said: Do you want some more Barack Obama Kool-Aid, or what?

  

  Elisabeth Hasselbeck
  • She
  • Joy
  • Senate

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Aaliyah
  • Myself
  • Times
  • Figure

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Kate Bush
  • Question
  • Strongly
  • Adored

• 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

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

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Best
  • Away
  • Figure

• Oops, I did it again, didn't I? My shit's harder to figure out than what Britney's tit size is.

  

  Eminem
  • Size
  • Harder
  • Figure

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

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Heart
  • Action
  • Plastic

• 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

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