Figures Quotes
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I feel like my figure is a challenge because I'm quite flat chested but I've got a booty so I've got to look for the right things.
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You explain how it went, and as far as you can figure out how it got that way.
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She had the power to destroy. I had only seen the power to love. When you discovered both, who could figure out what to do with that?
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Challenges, when you're in a tumultuous situation, are an opportunity to grow, an opportunity to get closer to God, an opportunity to find and kind of reform yourself, and to figure out what really matters and what your priorities are.
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I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.
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Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.
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I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye.
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I met this woman, I fell in love with her, and I'm a public figure.
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I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but add up figures. And all day he says over and over, just like you: 'I am busy with matters of consequence!' And that makes him swell up with pride. But he is not a man - he is a mushroom!
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I can't figure out how they decide on those things. So I don't have any regrets about anything that I did that didn't get a lot of people to see it.
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There's always a crisis somewhere, and you get the satisfaction of solving the problem. And then, there's always the mystery of whether a program will work or not, and waiting for the reviews or seeing what the audience figures are.
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If the Olympic champion doesn't know how to jump quad, I don't know. Now it's not figure skating. Now it's dancing.
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He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington
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To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describes-countrysides and figures, movements and gestures-how could he have a style, that is originality?
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I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they're going.
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The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people.
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He led quite a great life, ... He was an Old Testament figure railing against the establishment - a Jewish guy from New York who became a Buddhist, a poet, a musician.
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In the theatre, words are eighty to eighty-five percent of the importance of what is happening to you for your comprehension. In film, words are about twenty percent. It's a different figure, but it's almost an opposite ratio. For the words are only a little bit of embroidery, a little bit of lacework.
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That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.
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I would say that the off-frame effect in photography results from a singular and definitive cutting-off which figures castration and is figured by the click of the shutter.
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Everyone also needs to realize that business is not rocket science. Everything that you haven't done before, you don't know it because you haven't done it before. It's not brain surgery and you figure it out as you do it.
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Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story.
