Figures Quotes - Page 6

• We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals

  Tommy Shaw

  Lazy, Popular Song, Down And

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• I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.

  Mitchell Kapor

  Ideas, People, Trying

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• I always figure I have this tree and there's always some green fruit that's not ready to pick or blossoms that are ready to flower; there are always some ready to drop off too.

  Graeme Murphy

  Flower, Tree, Green

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• In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.

  Stanley Crouch

  America, Might, Patient

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• You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Voice, Village, Way

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• A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.

  Georges Rouault

  Character, Expression, Sky

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• I don't have a no-trade clause. I figure someone is going to pick me up.

  Bobby Bonilla

  Sports, Pick Me Up, Figure Skating

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• I've heard all kinds of crazy rumors about myself. I've even heard that I'm pregnant! I've become real good about laughing things off - I figure I'd better get used to it.

  Carrie Underwood

  Crazy, Real, Pregnancy

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• When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Easy, When Things Go Wrong, Hard

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• Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

  Jeffrey Wright

  Dirty, Fans, Culture

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• I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.

  Robert Sheckley

  Hard Work, Writing, Self

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• I had three stages of knowing Wellington Mara. He was my boss for a long time and he was a father figure. And finally, as we got older, he was my friend.

  Frank Gifford

  Sports, Father, Knowing

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• You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

  Ann Beattie

  Writing, Self, People

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• Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

  Judy Chicago

  Art, Thinking, Wish

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• I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Memories, Trying, Figure Skating

  "Charlie Kaufman: A true original". www.today.com. March 18, 2004.

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• It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.

  Margaret Spellings

  Kids, College, Figure Skating

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• One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even though the final result is often small indeed.

  Max Weber

  Wish, Trying, Tasks

  Max Weber (1968). “On Charisma and Institution Building”, p.295, University of Chicago Press

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• Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else.

  William Petersen

  Dark, People, Trying

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• Well, I can't figure out God.

  Oral Roberts

  Figure Skating, Wells, I Can

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• What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.

  Beth Henley

  Thinking, Class, Long

  Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, www.encyclopedia.com.

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• I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.

  Wally Schirra

  Needs, Stories, Helping

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• It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.

  Barry Watson

  Women, Clothes, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.

  Judith Light

  Pride, Gay, Years

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• In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.

  Dick Schaap

  Sports, Years, Squash

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• The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?

  Evangelista Torricelli

  Distance, Mean, Special

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