Figures Quotes - Page 2

Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.

Warren Spahn

Games, Two, Magic

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I didn't really care about sales figures. I just wanted to get things off my chest.

Tom Cochrane

Care, Wanted, Chests

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If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

Inspirational, Basketball, Wisdom

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

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Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.

Sonny Perdue

Teacher, Encouragement, Art

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They say it figures MTV would do such a vulgar, awful, horrible show and they completely miss that it's satirizing the people who watch MTV.

Mike Judge

Mtv, People, Missing

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Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.

Usher

Break Up, Heartbroken, Breakup

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The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.

John Cusack

Office, Dollars, Figure Skating

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Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.

Doris Lessing

Stars, Cutting, People

'The Habit of Loving' (1957) ch. 17

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When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.

Pat Boone

Caring, People, Political

Interview with Wes Vernon, www.renewamerica.com. January 9, 2006.

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One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Carl Jung

Love Life, Suicidal, Knowledge

Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler, Michael Scott Montague Fordham (1973). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Alchemical studies”

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In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.

Don Marquis

Church, Devil, Males

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Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.

Sheryl Crow

Hero, Dirty, Naughty

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Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.

Etty Hillesum

Greed, Intellectual, Information

Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.146, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a well-thought-out motivation that she felt was worthy trade-off. The motivation here is survival, and she has to think like a leader.

Mary McDonnell

Motivational, Thinking, Leader

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Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be doing.

Bob Woodward

Thinking, Political, Literature

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I've had lots of replies, we're into the double figures now. And the overall standard is very good. In fact I've been feeling a little guilty, because I haven't replied to anyone yet - it is something I will be doing.

Peter Banks

Feelings, Double Standard, Littles

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That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me.

Daniel Okrent

Hard Times, Dubious, Faces

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Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance.

Louis Leakey

Religious, Men, Magic

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I play, in real life, Kim, who is actually Marshall Mathers ex-wife as of now. She lies and says she is pregnant because she really wants to keep him and he figures her out.

Taryn Manning

Lying, Real, Pregnancy

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In all systems of theology, the devil figures as a male person.

Don Herold

Devil, Males, Theology

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It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

Alice Walker

Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.308, Feminist Press at CUNY

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There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.

Ralph Fiennes

Challenges, World, Fantasy

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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

W. Edwards Deming

Reality, Quality, Management

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It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer.

Stockwell Day

Prayer, Political, Would Be

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If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.

Cher

Inspirational, Determination, Motivation

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