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• In the Sacramento of the 1950s, it was as though White simply hadn't had time enough to figure Brown out. It was a busy white time. Brown was like the skinny or fat kids left over after the team captains chose sides. You take the rest — my cue to wander away to the sidelines, to wander away.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Team, Kids, White

  Richard Rodriguez (2003). “Brown: The Last Discovery of America”, p.13, Penguin

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• Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Animal, Men, Excellence

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (1994). “Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• The various estimates of the height of the true summit vary considerably, but by taking an average of these figures it is possible to say confidently that the summit of Rum Doodle is 40,000 1/2 feet above sea level.

  William Ernest Bowman

  Average, Sea, Feet

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• A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Witty, Math, Science

  Chartism ch. 2 (1839) See Disraeli 38

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• Use feedback analysis to identify your strengths. Then go to work on improving your strengths. Identify and eliminate bad habits that hinder the full development of your strengths. Figure out what you should do and do it. Finally, decide what you should not do.

  Peter Drucker

  Analysis, Use, Development

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• If you want to be a virtuoso then you have to set your sights above me. You have to go beyond what I'm doing. And that's for you to figure out. Because if you can do that, then I'm going to be trying to go beyond you.

  Steve Vai

  Sight, Trying, Want

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• I believe that there's something interesting about anyone and everyone - you just have to figure out what that something is.

  Tony Hsieh

  Motivational, Believe, Interesting

  "Zappos CEO: Don’t Network, Build Relationships" by Tony Hsieh, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2011.

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• I don't read the newspapers, I don't watch the news. I figure, if something important happens, someone will tell me.

  Justin Trudeau

  Important, Watches, News

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• A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples' songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out how to play other people's music from records. This keeps my ears, fingers, and mind working

  Lisa Loeb

  Song, Book, Voice

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• I just need to figure out how things work.

  Ivan Sutherland

  Needs

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• By writing her self, woman will return to the body which has been more than confiscated from her, which has been turned into the uncanny stranger on display - the ailing or dead figure, which so often turns out to be the nasty companion, the cause and location of inhibitions. Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time.
  Write your self. Your body must be heard. Only then will the immense resources of the unconscious spring forth.

  Helene Cixous

  Spring, Writing, Self

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• Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.

  Steven Pressfield

  Scare, Firsts

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• We chose the most interesting image available to us to illustrate the theme of the cover, which is what we always try to do. We apply the same test to photographs of any public figure, male or female: does the image convey what we are saying? That is a gender-neutral standard.

  Jon Meacham

  Interesting, Trying, Males

  "Official Statement on NEWSWEEK's Sarah Palin Cover". www.newsweek.com. November 17, 2009.

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• I remember trying not to disrupt everyone else in the room, fumbling around trying to figure out how to use the medium with a beautiful model disrobed in front of me.

  Don Watson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Trying

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• When you draw a nude, sketch the whole figure and nicely fit the members to it and to each other. Even though you may only finish one portion of the drawing, just make certain that all the parts hang together, so that the study will be useful to you in the future.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Beauty, Drawing, Together

  da Vinci Leonardo, Leonardo (da Vinci) (1990). “Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists”, Running Press Book Publishers

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• I was this Swedish kid who came over here to study engineering, but I got into movies, and suddenly I'm in this 'Rocky' picture with Sylvester Stallone. And then the movie comes out, and it's a big hit, and I'm famous. Like, world famous. I wasn't thinking of ruling Hollywood; I was thinking of just trying to make it to the next day, trying to figure out what the hell happened.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Kids, Thinking, Engineering

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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• There is no closed figure in nature. Every shape participates with another. No one thing is independent of another, and one thing rhymes with another, and light gives them shape.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Independent, Light

  "A life in pictures". Interview with Liz Jobey, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 1998.

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• A doctor could make a million dollars if he could figure out a way to bring a boy into the world without a trigger finger.

  Arthur Miller

  Boys, Doctors, Dollars

  Arthur Miller (1947). “All My Sons: Drama in Three Acts”, p.10, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Friedrich Hayek is not an important figure in the history of macroeconomics.

  Paul Krugman

  Important, Hayek, Macroeconomics

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• After wishing for years to be given-the-opportunity of filming some of the more 'mystical' occupations of our Times - some of the more obscure Public Figures which the average imagination turns into 'bogeymen'... viz.: Policemen, Doctors, Soldiers, Politicians, etc.: - I was at last permitted to ride in a Pittsburgh police car, camera in hand, the final several days of September 1970.

  Stan Brakhage

  Opportunity, Doctors, Average

  Stan Brakhage (1982). “Brakhage scrapbook: collected writings, 1964-1980”, Treacle Pr

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• I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal

  L'Wren Scott

  Thinking, Perfect, Looks

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

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• Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Book, Years, Wish

  Martin Cruz Smith (2016). “Gypsy in Amber”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else.

  John Tenniel

  Nature, Use, Models

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• I mean, Jesus was a white man too. He was a historical figure — that's a verifiable fact.

  Megyn Kelly

  Jesus, Mean, Men

  "No, Megyn Kelly, Santa Is Not White" by Ben Dreyfuss, www.motherjones.com. December 12, 2013.

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• I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out.

  Alex Katz

  Simple, Complicated

  Alex Katz, Vittoria Coen, Lisa Liebmann (1999). “Alex Katz. Catalogo della mostra”, Hopeful Monsters

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