Figures Quotes - Page 19

• My son is not a public figure to me, he is my son. I can't predict what's going to be in the headlines. Justin has always been someone who has to do things his way. And I have to be able to believe he will do the right thing and he will come out on top.

  Pattie Mallette

  Believe, Son, Able

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• Zionism itself has paradoxically come to adopt some antisemitic logic in its hatred of Jews who do not fully identify with the politics of the state of Israel. Their target, the figure of the Jew who doubts the Zionist project, is constructed in the same way as the European antisemites constructed the figures of the Jew – he is dangerous because he lives among us, but is not really one of us.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Israel, Hatred, Doubt

  "A vile logic to Anders Breivik's choice of target" by Slavoj Žižek, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2011.

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• I always felt my emancipation into truly being a grown-up was when I had to figure out how to fold up a king-size fitted bottom sheet on my own.

  Emily Procter

  Kings, Size, Sheets

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• The only important thing in this life is to figure out how to use the experiences that you have to make the world a better place.

  Emily Procter

  Important, Use, World

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• I think people figure out early in their lives what currency they can work in.

  Merrill Markoe

  Thinking, People, Figure Skating

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• Science attempts to figure out laws and then uses it later. While the work of art reflects the cosmic order without asking for an explanation

  Alija Izetbegovic

  Art, Order, Law

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• One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Historical, Age, Growing

  Sebastian Horsley (2016). “Dandy in the Underworld”, p.234, Hachette UK

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• I am not a political figure, nor do I want to be one; but I come with my heart.

  Princess Diana

  Heart, Political, Politics

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• Carryin' a gun is a chancy thing. Sooner or later a man is put in a position to use it. And a body has to figure that if somebody packs iron he plans to use it when the time comes; and if he draws it out, he plans to shoot.

  Louis L'Amour

  Gun, Men, Iron

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “Mojave Crossing”, p.32, Bantam

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• Kids aren't supposed to have to figure out how to be happy. They just are.

  Susan Wiggs

  Kids, How To Be Happy

  Susan Wiggs (2012). “Summer at Willow Lake: Lakeshore Chronicles”, p.79, Harlequin

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• Sometimes coloring outside the lines can cost you. Only you can figure out if it’s worth it.

  Diane Chamberlain

  Cost, Lines, Sometimes

  Diane Chamberlain (2013). “Necessary Lies”, p.306, Macmillan

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• I figure it this way - if a woman claims she didn't want me to fudge her, then you already know she's a liar. So what the hell's the point of a trial, y'know?

  Zach Braff

  Liars, Trials, Fudge

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• You don't need an alarm clock when you sleep with 20 models a night, one of those broads'll figure out that they better make breakfast in bed or I'll kill all of them.

  Zach Braff

  Sleep, Night, Bed

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• I don't ask questions. I just figure the extra warm days are God's way of rewarding me for Garden State

  Zach Braff

  Garden, Way, States

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• Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.

  Takashi Murakami

  Minorities, Influential, Bigs

  "Murakami's Monster Magic". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 5, 2013.

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• Some people don't know how to fall in love, like not knowing how to swim. They panic first when they jump in. Then they figure it out.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Falling In Love, Knowing, People

  Sarah Addison Allen (2007). “Garden Spells”, p.177, Bantam

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• We have a long way to go to understand that web analytics is a thinking man's tool, not a solution unto itself. On the bright side, 73% of those surveyed might still figure out that web analytics can help them drive actionable insights one day.

  Jim Sterne

  Men, Thinking, Long

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• Don't be constantly selling and shilling. Figure out how you can help others, tell them stories, and share openly everything you know so that people will recognize you as someone that they can trust, who won't turn them off by constantly trying to sell them something.

  C.C. Chapman

  Book, Helping Others, People

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• Heterosexuals get drunk and pregnant, producing unwanted children; their reward is to be allowed to marry. Homosexual couples do not produce unwanted children; their reward is to be denied the right to marry. Go figure.

  Richard Posner

  Children, Couple, Drunk

  "Hero Federal Appeals Judge Burns Down the Case Against Gay Marriage" by Michelle Dean, gawker.com. September 5, 2014.

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• You gotta go in the mud sometimes to figure who you are.

  Andy Irons

  Surfing, Mud, Sometimes

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• Basically we should stop doing those things that are destructive to the environment, other creatures, and ourselves and figure out new ways of existing.

  Moby

  Vegetarianism, Way, Vegan

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• Let me get a sip of water here... you figure this stuff is safe to drink? Actually, I don't care, I drink it anyway. You know why? Because I'm an American and I expect a little cancer in my food and water. I'm a loyal American and I'm not happy unless I let government and industry poison me a little bit every day.

  George Carlin

  Letting Go, Philosophy, Cancer

  "Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics". Comedy album by George Carlin, 1990.

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• I wonder if it changes the nature of a society for beauty to be so common. Maybe in Vietnam "She has a wonderful personality" really means something. But I couldnt figure out a polite way to ask.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Love, Mean, Personality

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.324, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I notice that the number of cosmetic-surgery operations has risen by 34 per cent in the past year. Once we subtract Jordan, Jodie Marsh and Michael Jackson from those figures, we can see that demand overall may have stabilised.

  Michael Gove

  Past, Years, Numbers

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• At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual foundation for not only economics, but for ethics, geometry, and optics, as well. This bizarre claim turned a serious scholar and profound thinker into a comical cult figure, a sort of Euro Kim Il Sung.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Profound, Intellectual, Foundation

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