Figures Quotes - Page 3

• In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.

  Terry Brooks

  Cutting, Weather, Drawing

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• Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.

  Michael Novak

  Character, Years, Gdp

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• The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together.

  Alan Price

  Real, Guitar, Play

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• We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican.

  Kate Clinton

  Pride, Gay, People

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• With Jack Abramoff under indictment, a number of readers have suggested that now he might flip and try to offer the feds some figures higher up the food-chain.

  Josh Marshall

  Numbers, Ties, Trying

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• Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures.

  Alessandro Del Piero

  Football, Ambition, Thinking

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• I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.

  Charles Van Doren

  Book, Lists, Facts

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• In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.

  Helmut Newton

  California, House, Backyards

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• And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

  Musical, Important, Transformation

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• It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures.

  Robert Bourassa

  Mind, May, Difficult

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• I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values.

  Georg Brandes

  Home, World, Values

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally.

  Ken Burns

  Player, Thinking, Technique

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• Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice.

  David Duchovny

  Loss, Sacrifice, Privacy

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• Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.

  Sidney Sheldon

  New York, Angel, Lunch

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• It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.

  Sam Brownback

  Religious, Government, Hands

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• We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.

  Dave Barry

  Believe, Wire, Bills

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• There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.

  Erma Bombeck

  Body, Want, Taught

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.196, Open Road Media

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• A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy.

  Vivica Fox

  Sexy, Nice, Self Confidence

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• Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

  Tim Allen

  Funny, Positive, Liars

  "Land Your Dream Job: High-Performance Techniques to Get Noticed, Get Hired, and Get Ahead". Book by John Middleton, Ken Langdon, and Nikki Cartwright, 2007.

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• I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Thinking, Mad, Tragic

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• Last year, I made a refrigerator in my basement. And I needed to because I needed to figure how - you know there is no such thing as 'cold.' There is only less heat.

  Alton Brown

  Years, Lasts, Heat

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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.

  Mos Def

  Hustle, Trying, Way

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• At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

  Seamus Heaney

  Attitude, Home, Figure Skating

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• I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.

  David Icke

  Dad, Children, Nightmare

  "Beset by lizards" by Jon Ronson, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

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• I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.

  Dean Koontz

  Use, Literature, Levels

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