Figures Quotes - Page 4

• Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Tolerance, Trying, Prejudice

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• The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Lonely, Jobs, Loneliness

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• If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

  Samuel Richardson

  Children, Educational, Would Be

  Samuel Richardson (1980). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

  Dennis Rodman

  Funny, Sports, School

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• You've got to experiment to figure out what works.

  Andrew Weil

  Figure Skating, Experiments

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• I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.

  Bob Woodward

  Trying, Tape, Information

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• Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

  Virginia Woolf

  Motivational, Women, Power

  A Room of One's Own ch. 2 (1929)

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• We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
  In feelings, not in figures on a dial.

  Philip James Bailey

  Time, Years, Feelings

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.85

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• Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

  Virgil Thomson

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Fear

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• The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Mirrors, Practice

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• I usually use quick sketches that I accumulated from the figure drawing classes I once instructed.

  Frank Bruno

  Sports, Athlete, Class

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• She not only kept her lovely figure, she's added so much to it.

  Bob Fosse

  Sarcastic, Lovely

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• I didn't figure out the makeup or cute hair or clothes until oh, maybe my junior year of high school.

  Catherine Bell

  Cute, School, Makeup

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

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• The one who figures on victory at headquarters before even doing battle is the one who has the most strategic factors on his side.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Victory, Battle

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.56, Shambhala Publications

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• No one told me about boys. I had to figure it out myself. The first thing I learned was that sometimes they grow slower than women mentally.

  Elena Anaya

  Boys, Firsts, Sometimes

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• I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last

  Alan Ladd

  Insecure, Long, Guy

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• Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.

  Stephen Breyer

  Government, Citizens, Want

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• Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned.

  Debi Thomas

  Real, Life Changing, Titles

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• My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got.

  Kerry King

  Dragons, Eagles, Firsts

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• I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

  Gale Norton

  Thinking, Challenges, Environmental

  Interview with Alex Pasquariello, www.hcn.org. May 24, 2004.

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• For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.

  Zell Miller

  Years, Issues, Glitter

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 1 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.

  Joshua Homme

  Thinking, Trying, Figure Skating

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• Generally I finish a first draft in 2-6 months, then I set it aside for a while so that when I come back to it I can read it with fresh eyes and figure out how to improve it.

  Margaret Haddix

  Eye, Months, Firsts

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• I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Thinking, Funny Things, Ivory

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• The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years! We don't really know if he existed as a historical figure.

  Bjorn Ulvaeus

  Jesus, Power, Years

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

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