Figures Quotes - Page 15

• One of the many advantages of being a loner is that often there's time to think, ponder, brood, meditate deeply, and figure things out to one's satisfaction.

  Andrea Seigel

  Wisdom, Thinking, Solitude

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• My father used to say to me, 'Whenever you get into a jam, whenever you get into a crisis or an emergency, become the calmest person in the room and you'll be able to figure your way out of it.'

  Rudy Giuliani

  Father, Jam, Able

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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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• I was very disturbed when Jesus found a demon in a guy, and he put the demon in a herd of pigs, then sent them off a cliff. What did the pigs do? I could never figure that out. It just seemed very un-Christian. Technically, I'm an agnostic, but I definitely believe in hell -- especially after watching the fall TV schedule.

  Matt Groening

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  "Questions for: Matt Groening". www.nytimes.com. December 27, 1998.

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• Perhaps my early problems with dyslexia made me more intuitive: when someone sends me a written proposal, rather than dwelling on detailed facts and figures I find that my imagination grasps and expands on what I read.

  Richard Branson

  Business, Dwelling, Imagination

  Richard Branson (1999). “Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way”, Crown Business

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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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• If you could figure out how to live with family then you'd gone a long way toward finding your peace.

  Ben Fountain

  Long, Gone, Way

  Ben Fountain (2012). “Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk”, p.76, Canongate Books

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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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• Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.

  Auguste Rodin

  Taken, Body, Torso

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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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• Making a decision to be a public figure isn't their choice right now. I don't think it's fair. Even though they're beautiful and I love them, they haven't made that decision yet. I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Beautiful, Baby, Thinking

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• Nature has a way of taking care of things. If you have a certain figure you'll go back to it. Breast feed and don't worry about it.

  Eva Herzigova

  Worry, Care, Way

  "Eva Herzigova Is Confident She'll Shed Baby Weight" by Silvia Sansoni, people.com. October 30, 2007.

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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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• Painting figures is the hardest, certainly the most taxing genre, and you have to be the most on your game. If you have significant drawing problems, the figure will fall apart and it will read wrong emotionally.

  Jacob Collins

  Beauty, Fall, Games

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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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• Start buying gold now, regardless of the price. By acting now, you will not have to react when it's too late. Too late will be when the majority of the public finally figures out what is happening to paper money and frantically tries to get aboard. Remember, if you're one of the ones holding paper in the end, you will have given away your products and services for nothing.

  Robert Ringer

  Acting, Gold, Trying

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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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• Babe Ruth, what can you say? You are almost speechless when people put your name alongside his name. I wish I can go back in time in meet him. Obviously, he was probably the most important sports figure in the world at that time. Hopefully, someday when I pass away, I get to meet him, and then I can really find out what he was really like.

  Mark McGwire

  Sports, Names, People

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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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