Figures Quotes - Page 10

• Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

  Gore Vidal

  Sarcastic, Book, Writing

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Nov 18, 2010

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  The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

  Walter Wriston

  Business, Blow, Organization

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  If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Basketball, Running

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

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  We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Soul And Body, Asks

  "Aristotle's Psychology". Book by Aristotle, translated by E. Wallace, p. 61, 1882.

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• I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, Figure Skating, Pedals

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  No one can figure out your worth but you.

  Pearl Bailey

  Pearl Bailey (1969). “The raw Pearl”, Pocket

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• The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Beauty, Fashion, Hair

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• Infinite was me trying to figure out how I wanted my rap style to be, how I wanted to sound on the mic and present myself. It was a growing stage. I felt like Infinite was like a demo that just got pressed up.

  Eminem

  Rap, Style, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in his name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions…I'm for decency—period. I'm for anything and everything that bodes love and consideration for my fellow man. But when lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday—count me out.

  Frank Sinatra

  Sunday, Men, Blood

  Interview with Joe Hyams, Playboy magazine, February 1963.

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• The public doesn't care about figures.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Care

  "California Countdown". www.nbcnews.com. September 26, 2003.

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• It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along

  Nathan Lane

  Figure Skating, Cliche

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• I can figure out which Spice Girl I wanna impregnate.

  Eddie Murphy

  Girl, Spices, I Can

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• A clearer and more conventional narrative would have helped the film without, in my opinion, lessening its beauty and its impact. Frankly, I'm still trying to figure out what I'm doing there and what I was supposed to add in that context! What's more, Terry Malick himself never managed to explain it to me clearly.

  Sean Penn

  Impact, Trying, Add

  "Sean Penn on The Tree of Life: 'Terry never managed to explain it clearly'" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2011.

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• Sometimes I do a Dylan song and it seems to fit me so right that I figure maybe I wrote it. Dylan didn’t always do it for me as a singer, not in the early days, but then I started listening to the lyrics. That sold me.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Song, Listening, Singers

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• Well, the experience for me making a film is the most profound one. I really don’t have any business watching the movie so much. Maybe I could watch it for entertainment purposes, but you have so little input and control of the final product once you’re done that I feel like I just would rather leave it alone. It kind of leaves me in a place where every film I do, I’m kind of having to reinvent and figure out how to start again fresh, and hopefully not repeat myself.

  Jared Leto

  Hopefully Not, Profound, Watches

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• If you want to make movies you need to think on a micro-micro level and figure out how to make them for nothing with people who really care about your movie and really want to make it.

  Anton Yelchin

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• Anyone can memorize facts and figures.  The real way to learn anything is to go out and experience it.  Let your curiosity lead you.

  Will Ferrell

  Real, Curiosity, Way

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  Figure out what you love to do, then figure out how to get paid to do it.

  Nick Offerman

  What You Love, Paid

  Nick Offerman (2013). “Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living”, p.58, Penguin

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• If no one figures out you are pretending to be retarded, your life will be greeted with treasure.

  Eugene Mirman

  Treasure, Retarded, Pretending

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• It's a chain of accidents. When you step into Hollywood, you wind yourself into thousands of chains of accidents. If all of the thousands happen to come out exactly right-and the chance of that figures out to be one in eight million-then you'll be a star.

  Clark Gable

  Stars, Eight, Wind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?

  Goldie Hawn

  Book, Sound, May

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. February 24, 2006.

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• I did Phone Booth, and that was shot very, very quickly, but that was Joel Schumacher, who's shot so many movies that, if anybody can figure out how to do it in a couple of days, it's him.

  Katie Holmes

  Couple, Phones, Schumacher

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 15, 2003.

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• People say I'm a one-note actor, but the way I figure it, those other guys are just looking for that one right note.

  Joel McCrea

  People, Guy, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I was four or five, I would organise my cars and my action figures. I needed some kind of structure, I think.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Thinking, Car, Four

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• There's people that figure if they hang out with you, all of a sudden they're going to be successes. I've had two or three stalkers in my life

  Dustin Diamond

  Two, People, Three

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