Figures Quotes - Page 6

• I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. Thats how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

  Bruce Sterling

  Literature, Today, Students

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• Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel comfortable and safe going back.

  Les Aspin

  Iraq, Long, Safe

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• We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals

  Tommy Shaw

  Lazy, Popular Song, Down And

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• One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even though the final result is often small indeed.

  Max Weber

  Wish, Trying, Tasks

  Max Weber (1968). “On Charisma and Institution Building”, p.295, University of Chicago Press

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• As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.

  Ernst Toller

  Kings, Hero, Boys

  Ernst Toller (1934). “I was a German: the autobiography of Ernst Toller”

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• I've heard all kinds of crazy rumors about myself. I've even heard that I'm pregnant! I've become real good about laughing things off - I figure I'd better get used to it.

  Carrie Underwood

  Crazy, Real, Pregnancy

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• A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

  Issey Miyake

  Art, Body, Great Things

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• Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men

  Mother Jones

  Fighting, Men, Mountain

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• Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

  Jeffrey Wright

  Dirty, Fans, Culture

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• I enjoyed high school and college, and I think I learned a lot, but that was not really my focus. My focus was on trying to figure out what businesses to start

  Steve Case

  School, College, Thinking

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• It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.

  Arthur Cohn

  Directors, Conviction, Our Time

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• A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

  Minna Antrim

  Inspirational, Life, Women

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• I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.

  Camille Claudel

  Fire, Squash, Hammers

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• I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Memories, Trying, Figure Skating

  "Charlie Kaufman: A true original". www.today.com. March 18, 2004.

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• It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.

  Margaret Spellings

  Kids, College, Figure Skating

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• I had three stages of knowing Wellington Mara. He was my boss for a long time and he was a father figure. And finally, as we got older, he was my friend.

  Frank Gifford

  Sports, Father, Knowing

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• I always figure I have this tree and there's always some green fruit that's not ready to pick or blossoms that are ready to flower; there are always some ready to drop off too.

  Graeme Murphy

  Flower, Tree, Green

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• In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.

  Stanley Crouch

  America, Might, Patient

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• You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Voice, Village, Way

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• A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.

  Georges Rouault

  Character, Expression, Sky

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• I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.

  Mitchell Kapor

  Ideas, People, Trying

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• Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

  Judy Chicago

  Art, Thinking, Wish

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• Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.

  Nora Roberts

  Different, Tools, Literature

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• In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.

  Dick Schaap

  Sports, Years, Squash

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• The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?

  Evangelista Torricelli

  Distance, Mean, Special

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