Figures Quotes - Page 9

• I may never get my own action figure, but at least I think what I'm doing is really legitimate musically

  Gavin DeGraw

  Thinking, May, Action

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• Follow up the interview with a phone call. If Carrot Top can figure out how to use a phone, so can you.

  Tom Cole

  Phones, Use, Interviews

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• I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Mysterious, Figure Skating, Shows

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• I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.

  Gay Talese

  New York, Character, Writing

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. July 6, 2006.

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• I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.

  Sean Lennon

  Art, Believe, Trying

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

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• When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.

  Fernando Flores

  Past, Figure Skating, Prison

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• It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords

  Tommy Shaw

  Fun, Hands, Trying

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• By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.

  Barry Sonnenfeld

  Definitions, Firsts, Figure Skating

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• I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.

  Utada Hikaru

  Judging, Matter, Firsts

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

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• I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure out who I am. I'm really lucky that I get to make a living at acting.

  Dana Delany

  Being In Love, Love Is, Who I Am

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Many nations are like rebellious teenagers who try to figure out just how many times they can kick us in the teeth while still taking our money.

  Paul Weyrich

  Money, Teenager, Trying

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• Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Thinking, Personality, Important

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• Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

  Irwin Shaw

  Figure Skating, Sissy, Deals

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• I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.

  Kurt Loder

  Thinking, People, News

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• You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when

  Mary Schmich

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• There is no point trying to figure out who is guilty or not at un-balancing the planet. I think we need to figure out and solve the problems together and not isolate from each other.

  Sarah Polley

  Thinking, Trying, Together

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• There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!

  Nat King Cole

  Income, Taxes, Just One

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• Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Travel, Strong, Memories

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.38

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• It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it.

  William Hurt

  Light, People, Trying

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• The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.

  Gene Tunney

  Sports, Cutting, Men

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• Yes, we have got to quit worrying about fighting each other and trying to figure out a way to work together.

  John Breaux

  Fighting, Worry, Working Together

  "CNN Live Today", www.cnn.com. January 3, 2002.

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• There are a couple of projects that are sort of on the plate; I haven't closed any of them yet. I'm trying to figure out which one is going to be the best one for me.

  Jay Hernandez

  Couple, Trying, Figure Skating

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• That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

  Steve Squyres

  Science, Trying, Stuff

  "Person of the Week: Steven Squyres". abcnews.go.com. January 9.

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• Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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• It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

  Mark Twain

  Class, Criminals, Literature

  Following the Equator ch. 8, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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