Figures Quotes - Page 40

• Anytime I met an actor, I just attacked them and said, 'How did you do this?' Eventually, I began to realize that you went to school for it. I wasn't a bright kid, so it took me a long time to figure that out.

  Patrick J. Adams

  School, Kids, Long

  "Patrick J. Adams Talks SUITS, Joining the Show, Challenging Scenes, Improv on Set and Fan Expectations for the Rest of Season 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 14, 2012.

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• To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I suppose it's significant, at least to me, that my first work should be about a historical figure.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Writing, Play, Guy

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• Some people would view Jackie Robinson as a very safe African-American, a docile figure who had a tendency to try to get along with everyone, and when you look at his history, you learn that he has this fire that allows him to take this punishment but also figure out savvy ways of giving it back.

  Chadwick Boseman

  Fire, Views, Punishment

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

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• Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people - not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene.

  Dierks Bentley

  Voice, People, Important

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• By learning about my body and making small, subtle changes, I find out what I enjoy and what is effective. I'm always finessing: adjusting my diet and my workouts. You have to figure out which exercises are fun and interesting and stimulate your brain - or else you'll never keep at them.

  Lisa Edelstein

  Workout, Fun, Exercise

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• The roles that men and women play are no longer the standard traditional roles of way back when but are those of two very individual people living their lives. I think it's been a hard transition in society - just take a look at the divorce rate - to figure out what that means now. How do you resolve that?

  Lisa Edelstein

  Mean, Divorce, Men

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• I always scout locations first. The apartments, the railway tracks, the café, the canal - I figure out the geography of the film.

  Claire Denis

  Track, Firsts, Directors

  Interview with Adam Nayman, reverseshot.org. June 26, 2009.

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• Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly prevailed in this country, of never submitting to the eye of the student, the figures on whose properties he is reasoning, but of drawing perspective representations of them upon a plane. ...I hope that I shall never be obliged to have recourse to a perspective drawing of any figure whose parts are not in the same plane.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Country, Eye, Science

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• Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a little weak? When you open it to speak, are you smart?

  Chet Baker

  Art, Media, Greek

  Song: My Funny Valentine

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• Mama, you know you raised me with no father figure. I wanna take this time to thank you, even though I'm doing life.

  Wyclef Jean

  Family, Father, Mama

  Song: New Day

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• Colour, Figure, Motion, Extension and the like, considered only so many Sensations in the Mind, are perfectly known, there being nothing in them which is not perceived. But if they are looked on as notes or Images, referred to Things or Archetypes existing without the Mind, then are we involved all in Scepticism.

  George Berkeley

  Science, Mind, Notes

  George Berkeley (2009). “Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues”, p.62, Oxford University Press

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• To remember simplified pictures is better than to forget accurate figures.

  Otto Neurath

  Science, Statistics, Remember

  Otto Neurath, Marie Neurath, Robert Sonné Cohen (1973). “Empiricism and sociology”

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• Our concerns about what we saw in Australia: an economy clearly tied to China has hitched its wagon to the tail of the tiger. In terms of the general complacency, what we heard over and over from investors and clients and potential clients is, 'yes, yes, there are some excesses, but the government will figure out a way.

  James Chanos

  Government, Australia, Tails

  "JIM CHANOS: I Visited Hong Kong And Australia, And This Is What I Saw" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. November 23, 2011.

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• Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion.

  Ernie Fletcher

  Jobs, Government, Needs

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• I'm not one of those people who writes a biography or tries to figure out what kind of ice cream the character liked when he was 10.

  Miguel Ferrer

  Writing, Character, Ice Cream

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

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• I always take kind of a zen view of casting and I really don't remember people who passed. I kind of turn it over to the universe and figure, 'Wow, I guess that wasn't meant to be.' It doesn't sit with me.

  Peter Farrelly

  Views, People, Wow

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• The GOP needs to figure out a way to become more appealing to new constituencies.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Needs, Way, Gop

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• I hope Gunter Grass will continue helping the SPD in campaigns and that he will otherwise remain with us as a provocative literary figure, as well.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Campaigns, Helping, Provocative

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• When I grew up Carl Lewis was still running, Maurice Greene was running - he was that figure I see, like Michael Johnson. I really wanted to look up to the fast guys - so those two guys were some of the guys I looked up to.

  Tyson Gay

  Running, Two, Guy

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• Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure out what we want? Have I arrived at some final telling moment in my research on outsourcing intimate parts of our lives, or at the absurdist edge of the market frontier?

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Research, Want, Finals

  "The Outsourced Life" by Arlie Russell Hochschild, www.nytimes.com. May 5, 2012.

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• Some people burn out, and some people like Clint Eastwood, he was a wild, international movie star in his 30s, and he's doing the best work of his life now. Go figure.

  Ethan Hawke

  Stars, People, Best Work

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• The tough thing about radio is I've met a lot of people in it who like my music. But it's hard for them to figure out how to play what they like when there's somebody up above them yelling 'you have to play this.

  Chris Isaak

  Yelling, Play, People

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• There aren't very many notable Native American female figures historically. That's the way that it's been. Pocahontas and Sacajawea.

  Julia Jones

  Native American, Female, Way

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• If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.

  Alan Jackson

  Years, Lasts, Mature

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

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• Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

  Bill James

  Crime, Cases, Fascinating

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