Figures Quotes - Page 8

• In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on.

  Thomas Frank

  People, Culture, Tycoons

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• Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?

  Newt Gingrich

  Past, Economic, Crisis

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• And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.

  Scott Hamilton

  Skating, Attention, Facts

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• Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.

  Scott Hamilton

  Judging, Skating, Half

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• I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Thinking, Media, Style

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• The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Dream, Hope, Life Lesson

  "Animal Dreams". Book by Barbara Kingsolver, 1990.

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• I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.

  Geddy Lee

  Trying, Facts, Emotion

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• If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Careers, Balance, Film

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• As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Humble, Honor, Proud

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• Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it.

  Sean Penn

  Real, Love Is, People

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• Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.

  Andy Rooney

  Sexy, Hurt, Gymnastics

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• My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

  Charles M. Schulz

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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• The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out.

  Michael Shermer

  Errors, Groups, Sides

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• Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly where I want to go.

  George C. Wallace

  Change, Giving, Looks

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• People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.

  Bernard Williams

  Fall, People, May

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• If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Giving, Firsts, Toys

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• I figure if the kids are alive at the end of the day, I've done my job.

  Roseanne Barr

  Jobs, Kids, Parenting

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• True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it

  Larry McMurtry

  Girlfriend, Father, Maturity

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• Every man's got to figure out how to get beat sometime.

  Joe Louis

  Men, Boxing, Beats

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• I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Regret, Thinking, Well Known

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• It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn't work.

  Josh Lucas

  Long, Figure Skating, Periods

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 24, 2002.

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• Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

  Mae West

  Relationship, Women, Independent

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist

  Harvey Pekar

  Fashion, Writing, Artist

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• I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

  Jackson Pollock

  Artist, Littles, Painting

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country

  Morton Feldman

  Country, Government, Australia

  Morton Feldman (2006). “Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987”

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