Figures Quotes
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I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit.
Tom Lehrer
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Michael Owen will get double figures this season - or at least 10, possibly more.
Garth Crooks
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The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.
Sarah Vowell
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He's the strangest hitter in baseball. Figure him out one way and he'll kill you another.
Sandy Koufax
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With every movie I do and every day I go to work, my goal is not just to reach for difference, but also figure out how to look at world and characters in a different way.
Tony Scott
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I'm halfway intelligent. I'll figure something out.
Ricky Williams
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Players have responsibilities, because, whether they like it or not, they are public figures. They have to be aware that the people who come to the ground spend fortunes in relation to what they earn.
Gerard Houllier
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I owe a lot to my parents, because they kept no genre off limits. Music was always playing in the house. They never told me to be quiet, turn the music down or anything like that. So I felt pretty free and experimental as a kid to kind of figure out my own voice.
Tori Kelly
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Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.
Scott Hamilton
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Essentially the Succubus is a mythical figure - who used to come in and cause trouble with innocent men.
MyAnna Buring
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I assure you that there's a lot involved in compositions with figures. ... It's like weaving... you must control and keep an eye on several things at once.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Yeah, you know, I performed occasionally. I was in such despair because I just - if I didn't have my music to connect with, I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to be doing. There was never a 'B' plan here; it was just this. So it took me a long time to find my way.
Melissa Manchester
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Growing up, I realized as an actor I had to figure out how to use my platform in order to give back.
Serinda Swan
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One can understand nature only when one has learned the language and the signs in which it speaks to us; but this language is mathematics and these signs are methematical figures.
Galileo Galilei
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I think that it is everyone's obligation they owe to themselves and to their lives to figure out their own way up their own mountain.
Erik Weihenmayer
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We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.
Lester Bowie
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Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes.
Vincent Van Gogh
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When you have little girls bringing you your action figures for you to sign, it's like, 'Wow, things are happening, and dreams do come true.'
Sasha Banks
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It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if you tell kids they're stupid--directly or indirectly--sooner or later they start to believe it.
Erin Gruwell
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I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.
Sean Lennon
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Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else.
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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I once painted a concert singer and on the chestnut frame I carved the opening bars of Mendelssohn's Rest in the Lord. It was ornamental unobtrusive and to musicians I think it emphasized the expression of the face and pose of the figure.
Thomas Eakins
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Often men believe women are the same, and once they figure what works for one woman they apply that same method to all the other women they are intimate with, and that's one of the major problems.
Gail Saltz
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How wrong are those simpletons, of whom the world is full, who look more at... color than at the figures which show spirit and movement.
Michelangelo