Figures Quotes - Page 33

• I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.

  John Baldessari

  Photography, Art, Decided

  Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 9, 2013.

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• Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

  Madeleine Albright

  Morning, Trying, Get Up

  "On being a woman and a diplomat". TED Talk, www.ted.com. December, 2010.

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• Don't nobody like a man they can't figure.

  Leonard Pitts

  Men

  Leonard Pitts (2009). “Before I Forget”, Agate Pub Incorporated

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• I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it's only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.

  Abraham Verghese

  Important, Way, Patient

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• My dresses help women discover figures they didn't know they had.

  Charles James

  Dresses, Helping, Knows

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• You have to figure out what conversion means in your case. What does retention mean? What does activation mean? For every business, it's going to be slightly different because of the nature of the product and the kinds of people who use it.

  Stewart Butterfield

  Mean, People, Doe

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• I’m 23 right now and I feel like I’m still trying to figure it out. Maybe in another two years, I’ll have it all together. So maybe 25 is the age at which a woman feels her most beautiful just because she’s survived her teenage years and early twenties.

  Chanel Iman

  Beautiful, Teenage, Years

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• Jesus was a white man, too. Its like we have, hes a historical figure thats a verifiable fact, as is Santa, I just want kids to know that. How do you revise it in the middle of the legacy in the story and change Santa from white to black?

  Megyn Kelly

  Jesus, Kids, Men

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• Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.

  Bill Hybels

  Leader, Maps, Road Maps

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• As a child, I felt that Hallowe'en was a time when creatures of the night suddenly came to life - we would turn off all the lights in the house and let flickering candlelight conjure up scary shadows and create the effect of imaginary figures lurking in dark corners.

  Pippa Middleton

  Children, Dark, Night

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• The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant grasp of the grand construction of a figure.

  Thomas Eakins

  Powerful, Tools, Construction

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• I like women, especially beautiful ones. If they have a good face and figure, I would much prefer to watch them being murdered than an ugly girl or man.

  Dario Argento

  Beautiful, Girl, Men

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• The main thing is just really to play my game... and while you are playing the match, as it goes along, you kind of figure things out.

  Mary Pierce

  Games, Play, Kind

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• My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he was a presence.

  Mark Gatiss

  Dad, Realising, Hard

  "Mark Gatiss: My family values". Interview with Alistair Duncan, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2010.

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• When I go and work with people, I never say, 'Your dog is changed for the rest of its life.' It's like a diet. You've got to maintain a discipline and ritual in your life to keep a certain figure.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Discipline, People

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• I believe that the art market is in a place similar to the music industry in 2005. Big changes are coming and the art market will most likely be very different in ten years. However, if you are the art equivalent of Van Halen, you don't really have to change anything. But if you are not Van Halen, then it is time to figure how to adapt to all the changes.

  Mark Edward

  Art, Believe, Years

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• Once, I discovered the skulls of two impala rams, their horns locked into an irreversible figure-of-eight; the two animals had been trapped in combat, latched to each other during the battle of the rut. The harder they had pulled to escape from each other, the more intractably stuck they were, until they had fallen exhausted, to their knees, in an embrace of hatred that had killed them both.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Animal, Eight, Two

  Alexandra Fuller (2002). “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood”, p.191, Random House

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• I love 'Last Call.' It took me a little bit to figure out that I wasn't going to be that guy in a suit telling monologue jokes.

  Carson Daly

  Guy, Littles, Lasts

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• The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges. Or, to change the figure, total science is like a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Men, Geography And History, Fabric

  "Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine".

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• Figure out what you're passionate about. If you're not passionate about something, go find it. Because we do not need more unengaged boring people to inhabit this planet.

  Ben Heppner

  People, Needs, Passionate

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• A good teacher, after all, wields the authority of a parent with none of the psychological baggage. The best of them are semi-mysterious figures whose wisdom seems boundless and whose approval helps us discover who we are.

  Steve Almond

  Teacher, Parent, Who We Are

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• I take simple everyday things that happen to me and I figure it happens to a lot of other people and I make simple rhymes out of them.

  Edgar Guest

  Simple, Everyday Things, People

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• I have a personality that tends to be somewhat compulsive, and I do tend to think in a circular way. I dwell on the same things over and over and I try to figure out different ways of looking at the same issue.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Thinking, Issues, Personality

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• I'm not running from any particular problems, I just want to take some time and figure out in my life where I can keep doing what I'm doing but in a way that I can also honor what I want to do for myself.

  Andy Stern

  Running, Honor, Want

  Interview with Ezra Klein, voices.washingtonpost.com. April 14, 2010.

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• Anything you're interested in the world whether it be Charlie rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop, they're on Twitter and broadcasting what is interesting to them.

  Jack Dorsey

  Coffee, Interesting, Rose

  Interview with Charlie Rose, charlierose.com. January 10, 2011.

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