Figures Quotes

• 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

  Trying, Armstrong, Whole

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• People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

  Martha Beck

  Doctors, People, Medical

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• I used to be hung up on my figure, but it's a waste of time. I don't believe in diets. Have four pints one night, be healthy the next.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Believe, Night, Healthy

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• Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

  Erma Bombeck

  Fashion, Design, Literature

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• 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

  Funny, Life, Hilarious

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  If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.

  Cher

  Inspirational, Determination, Motivation

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• Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.

  Sheryl Crow

  Hero, Dirty, Naughty

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• The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.

  John Cusack

  Office, Dollars, Figure Skating

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• It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer.

  Stockwell Day

  Prayer, Political, Would Be

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• Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Reality, Quality, Management

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• Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

  Evan Esar

  Business, Definitions, Statistics

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• Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

  Evan Esar

  Business, Lying, Believe

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• There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Challenges, World, Fantasy

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• This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones.

  Jesse Helms

  Political, North Carolina, Doe

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• If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Wisdom

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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• Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.

  Doris Lessing

  Stars, Cutting, People

  'The Habit of Loving' (1957) ch. 17

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• When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Wedding, Race, Sound

  "Dearly Beloved". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1962.

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• I play, in real life, Kim, who is actually Marshall Mathers ex-wife as of now. She lies and says she is pregnant because she really wants to keep him and he figures her out.

  Taryn Manning

  Lying, Real, Pregnancy

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• In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.

  Don Marquis

  Church, Devil, Males

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• The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

  Michelangelo

  Artist, Hands, Sculpture

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• Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.

  Usher

  Break Up, Heartbroken, Breakup

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• It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

  Alice Walker

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.308, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.

  Kate Winslet

  Real, Feel Better, People

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• Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be doing.

  Bob Woodward

  Thinking, Political, Literature

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• The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.

  Bob Woodward

  Clouds, Political, Doubt

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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