Figures Quotes - Page 27

• Music has shaped men’s fashion and transposed in a playful and witty manner its riding or military heritage. It is difficult to figure out who leads but music and fashion are connected genetically.

  Hedi Slimane

  Witty, Fashion, Military

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• Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

  Alan Shearer

  Team, Father, Creating

  "From the TV sofa to the dugout: Alan Shearer plots grand return". Interview with Paul Hayward, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2011.

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• Then you figure out that if you don't throw it as hard as you can, you can put it where you want. It's more important where you put it

  Dennis Eckersley

  Sports, Important, Want

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• The right to freedom of association is fine, but why shouldn't the cops be allowed to mine your social network to figure out if you're hanging out with gangbangers and terrorists?

  Cory Doctorow

  Association, Social Network, Cop

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.138, Macmillan

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• It is humanity's destiny to explore the universe. When we start thinking and working on that cosmic level, we will transcend our parochial differences and tribal natures and become global creatures, solar system creatures. Then we will figure out where we fit in.

  Story Musgrave

  Destiny, Thinking, Differences

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• We need Jesus like we need oxygen. Like we need water. Like the branch needs the vine. Jesus is not merely a figure for devotions. He is the missing essence of your existence. Whether we know it or not, we are desperate for Jesus.

  John Eldred

  Jesus, Oxygen, Essence

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• To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere.

  Umberto Boccioni

  Atmosphere, Paint, Humans

  "Futurism" edited by Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, (p. 172), 2008.

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• I knew I had a great figure, but I never regarded myself as beautiful.

  Marie Windsor

  Beautiful

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• I'm a firm believer that everything in life works out the way it's supposed to. And who knows? I figure I've got a few years left (in the NHL) and maybe I can come back in the end.

  Darren McCarty

  Years, Nhl, Work Out

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• Mom used to frame everything we made, and now I'm following her example. It makes children so proud to see their work on display instead of hidden away. I figure if I take my children's work seriously, maybe they will too. And it reinforces the idea that art is not something alien and esoteric. Anyone can make art.

  Aerin Lauder

  Mom, Art, Children

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• I think that if you do the best you can in your life, you get your just reward. You sometimes give up a great deal to achieve a plane you're looking for. But if you find that it's important enough, then you do it. You have to decide. Even when you figure you've given up a great deal to get a small amount of something, the pain is only there for a short time. It really goes away. Whatever the quandary, it leaves you.

  Frank Sinatra

  Life, Giving Up, Pain

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• If my false figures came near to the facts, this happened merely by chance ... These comments are not worth printing. Yet it gives me pleasure to remember how many detours I had to make, along how many walls I had to grope in the darkness of my ignorance until I found the door which lets in the light of the truth ... In such manner did I dream of the truth.

  Johannes Kepler

  Dream, Wall, Ignorance

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• We understand that as public figures, we are a target for people who have nothing to lose in their quest for fame and easy money, ... preposterous, slanderous and defamatory lies.

  Emilio Estefan

  Lying, People, Deceit

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• Don't get ahead of yourself. Companies need time to figure out what they want to be.

  Bart Decrem

  Want, Needs, Company

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• We don't take a macro view... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful.

  Robert Pozen

  Views, Hurtful, Looks

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• The "18/40/60" rule to happiness:
  At age 18, people care very much about what others think of them.
  By age 40, they learn not to worry what others think.
  By age 60, they figure out that no one was thinking about them in the first place.

  Daniel Amen

  Happiness, Caring, Thinking

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• The most important thing is to figure out Your goal in life. If Your intentions and methods are correct,
  there is no way You will not achieve it.

  Arjun Rampal

  Goal, Important, Way

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• Forcing me to figure out how to provide for myself was probably one of the best things my parents ever did for me.

  Sophia Amoruso

  Parent, Changing Your Life, Best Things

  Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.81, Penguin

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• I got into a brawl one night in a saloon in Greenwich Village. Elia Kazan, a great director, saw me put out a couple of hecklers and figures there was some Big Daddy in me, just lyin' dormant. And out it came. People still do call me Big Daddy, but to me, inside, I'm no Big Daddy at all.

  Burl Ives

  Couple, Night, Daddy

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• I think the call of the inward life starts here. Solitude helps you differentiate, define the borders of the self. Solitude helps you figure our where everybody else stops and you begins.

  Jeanne Marie Laskas

  Thinking, Self, Solitude

  Jeanne Marie Laskas (2010). “Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm”, p.85, Bantam

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• Life is complicated. It wtarts before we're ready, it continues while we're still trying to figure out the point of it. And it ends long before we've worked out just what to do.

  Adrian Tan

  Long, Trying, Life Is

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• I've always believed in instinct over intellect. The instinct is what you always knew; intellect is what you figure out.

  Michka Assayas

  Instinct, Intellect, Always Believe

  Michka Assayas (2006). “Bono”, p.92, Penguin

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• My son is not a public figure to me, he is my son. I can't predict what's going to be in the headlines. Justin has always been someone who has to do things his way. And I have to be able to believe he will do the right thing and he will come out on top.

  Pattie Mallette

  Believe, Son, Able

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• I think people figure out early in their lives what currency they can work in.

  Merrill Markoe

  Thinking, People, Figure Skating

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• One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Historical, Age, Growing

  Sebastian Horsley (2016). “Dandy in the Underworld”, p.234, Hachette UK

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