Figures Quotes
2652 quotes by 2013 authors
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It took me a long time to figure out that real big-time success comes from taking lots of small, ordinary steps in the right direction.…
— Deacon Jones
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I think I'm starting to figure out when I need to get rid of it and when I don't need to.
— Robert Griffin III
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The racehorses assemble at the starting barrier in all the finery of a mediaeval pageant, the jockeys in silks like figures from a Tarot pack,…
— Kevin Hart
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I've always had a determination to perfect whatever I'm doing. If I can't do something, I work on it until I figure it out.
— Stephanie Gilmore
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If something isn't working, if you have a story that you've built and it's blocked and you can't figure it out, take your favorite scene,…
— Joss Whedon
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Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.
— Steven Chu
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Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the grass," because it…
— Anton Chekhov
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In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or…
— Paul von Hindenburg
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This is crazier and louder than I was prepared for. With every week, the fervour and anticipation seem to grow. People know my name and…
— Robert Pattinson
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Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat.…
— Andrea Dworkin
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I moved to Des Moines when I was 15. I asked my mother to give up costody and sign parental rights over to my grandmother,…
— Corey Taylor
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I was really blown away and inspired by everything that she [Audrey Hepburn] had done for children via and through UNICEF and I guess it…
— Liv Tyler
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You just have to be opportunistic, and try to figure out what creates value.. where the bottom is, what creates incremental value, and in what…
— John C. Malone
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Right now-whether you're in writing courses getting "paid" in credit for writing, or burdened and distracted by earning a living and changing diapers-figure out how…
— Janet Burroway
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Figures don't lie, but liars figure.
— Mark Twain
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In general there is something puzzling about the fact that the most renowned figures in chess - Morphy, Pillsbury, Capablanca and Fischer - were born…
— Garry Kasparov
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When I look for what I'm going to listen to I go backwards. I'm always going the other way you see. Most people are trying…
— Eric Clapton
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I want to figure out how I can make the most important statement with the least amount of information, so I don't run out of…
— Larry Carlton
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I like eating fine foods and drinking nice wine. Even if I had a really good figure, I don't think I'd get my t**s and…
— Adele
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For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination of…
— Ruth Bernhard
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