Figures Quotes - Page 38

• Really, truly, try to figure out what your palate is all about. If you've determined that you don't like dirty old stinky wine - old-world flavors - you probably like new-world fruit bombs. Stick to Shirazes and California Cabernets or Zinfandels.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Dirty, Wine, California

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• It's definitely a thing to be sitting there, getting a pedicure, and you look over and someone is reading an article about an aspect of your life that you know is not true. It's weird, it's uncomfortable, but I don't see it changing anytime soon, so I should figure a way to laugh through it.

  Anne Hathaway

  Reading, Laughing, Looks

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• I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job and is trying to figure out how her local bank can change the terms on her credit card, and I heard from a physicist at a major research university who wants to explain a better theory of financial stress tests.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Jobs, Stress, People

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• One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.

  Hank Haney

  Ideas, Way, Realizing

  "'It's not easy being Tiger'". Interview with Scott T. Miller, www.espn.com. December 6, 2012.

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• I never did any training in journalism or in finance, so I really was in the deep end. I got very good at going to press conferences and nodding. I'd figure it out when I got back to the office. Charts and numbers. I've never been great with facts, ever, my whole life. For a journalist, that's not a very good trait.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Numbers, Office, Training

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• I'm really open to doing music. We just have to figure out what kind of music it's going to be - something where I don't feel compromised.

  Cheryl James

  Kind, Feels

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• I loved all those classic figures from the '30s and '40s... Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Humphrey Bogart, Rita Hayworth. They had such glamour and style. I loved the movies of those times too - so much attention paid to details, lights, clothing, the way the studios would develop talent.

  Grace Jones

  Movie, Light, Style

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• In a comedy, after the day is done, you can figure out ways of how to make it even funnier for the next day. In dramas, it's very different - the mindset that you're in.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Drama, Next Day, Different

  "Gael Garcia Bernal, ‘Casa de Mi Padre’ Star, On His Upcomming Role As Zorro". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2012.

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• If you can figure out how to get paid to do something you love, that's the dream.

  Jon Bernthal

  Dream, Something You Love, Paid

  "Q&A – Jon Bernthal (Shane)". AMC interview, www.amc.com.

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• I think 'G.I. Joe' is a perfect example of how I'm the world's worst businessman. If I were smart, I'd be writing 'World War Z Part 12', but I have to go where the muse leads, and I've always been a huge 'G.I. Joe' fan. I always wanted to know more about these characters, these little plastic figures I played with as a kid.

  Max Brooks

  War, Smart, Character

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 9, 2010.

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• Essentially the Succubus is a mythical figure - who used to come in and cause trouble with innocent men.

  MyAnna Buring

  Men, Innocent Man, Causes

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• My brother and I are always trying to figure out a way to work again together.

  Beau Bridges

  Brother, Always Trying, Together

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

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• Sometimes I want to be on 'The Real Housewives of New York.' I want to remind them to figure out how to get along and support each other.

  Candace Bushnell

  New York, Real, Support

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• Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations.

  Cofer Black

  Stress, Organization, Trying

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• I never had a father figure so I never missed it.

  Jamie Bell

  Father, Father Figure

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

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• I'm not psychic. I cannot know what is in the mind of particular public figures.

  John Bercow

  Psychics, Mind, Particular

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• I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented.

  Downtown Julie Brown

  Thinking, Tragedy, Faces

  "Julie Brown: Being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. October 20, 2010.

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• I went to my first drum n' bass rave when I was 16 and remember being terrified. Looking around, trying to figure out how to dance to this music, watching some girl in some hot pants, trying little ways to learn her movements.

  Katy B

  Girl, Trying, Movement

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• I've loved acting and dancing since I was a kid. Before anyone thought I was pretty or before I had a voluptuous figure, that was what I was going to do.

  Kelly Brook

  Kids, Dancing, Acting

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• I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone - of having a partner in life.

  Maria Bello

  Lasts, Roller Coaster, Monogamy

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• More than anything else, my mother wanted to be an actress - a famous actress - which in the 1950s was all about being young, sexy, and available. She was all that, and more. She had big blue eyes, alabaster skin, a heart-shaped face, a beautiful figure. She was just a knockout.

  Meredith Baxter

  Beautiful, Sexy, Mother

  Meredith Baxter (2011). “Untied: A Memoir of Family, Fame, and Floundering”, p.16, Crown Archetype

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• My husband is my part of my greatest joys, so it doesn't feel like work or like I'm balancing anything. My husband and my kids absolutely come first, so work is just something where I figure out where it will fit.

  Monica Denise Brown

  Husband, Kids, Joy

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• When the new wave of terrorism came on the modern world, which is the late 1960s, early 1970s, I think we spent about a decade, the United States and our allies, trying to figure out how to deal with it.

  Paul Bremer

  Thinking, Trying, United States

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• My wife handles all of our technology. So if something goes wrong with the computer, I throw up my arms and step aside while the IT gal figures it out.

  Ty Burrell

  Technology, Wife, Arms

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

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• Whatever the press is talking about, they want to keep talking about it. So instead of asking yourself, 'How can I get them to start talking about me?', figure out a way to get yourself involved in what they're already talking about.

  Brian Chesky

  Talking, Asking, Want

  "INSTANT MBA: If You've Just Solved A Problem, You May Have Solved It For Millions" by Patricia Laya, www.businessinsider.com. August 4, 2011.

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