Best Figures Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do everything we see on TV and don't know that 'actor' is a job yet.”

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Author:Rachelle Lefevre

“Yeah, you know, I performed occasionally. I was in such despair because I just - if I didn't have my music to connect with, I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to be doing. There was never a 'B' plan here; it was just this. So it took me a long time to find my way.”

Ifs Knows Way Long Plans Figures Despair Long Time Yeah My Way Supposed To Be

Author:Melissa Manchester

“I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.”

People Trying Figures Who I Am

Author:Natalie Merchant

“Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.”

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Author:Grace Napolitano

“I just need to figure out how to grow without compromising.”

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Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.”

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Author:Frances O'Grady

“We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.”

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Author:Frank Ocean

“I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.”

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Author:Haley Joel Osment

“I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing.”

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Author:Leo Ornstein

“I figure it's okay to make certain rules, whether or not people despise you for it at the time.”

People Certain Figures Okay Despise

Author:Will Oldham

“When I run in the morning, my body spends the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what's happening to it.”

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Author:Danny Pudi

“If there is excitement in their lives, it is contained in the figures on the profit and loss sheet. What an indictment.”

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Book:Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop

Source: Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop

“Richard got married to a figure skater, and he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolator.”

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Author:Joni Mitchell

“But for me at any rate it was all part of dissolving the God trip or father-figure trip. Facing up to reality instead of always looking for some kind of heaven.”

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Author:John Lennon

“I had a tough time fitting in, as I guess most kids do. I felt like school was kind of a grand opportunity to figure yourself out and to figure out what you wanted.”

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Author:Brie Larson

“At an independent label, you have to figure out inventive ways to promote without spending the money.”

Way Figures Independent Spending Labels

Author:Greg Laswell

“If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.”

Ifs Literature Figures Shoes

Author:Jim Leach

“People figure because I'm blonde and was a model, I just waltzed into Los Angeles and got major roles in major films.”

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Author:Monica Potter

“I'd love to be in the '70s. I'd love to have a big, long wig parted down the middle with flat-ironed hair and bell-bottoms. They're actually very flattering for my figure. The wider the leg, the better for a person with a booty.”

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Author:Sarah Paulson

“I feel a great responsibility playing a historical figure because whether they were good or bad, I feel like the person deserves a fair shake. It's like being the executor of their estate in some ways.”

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Author:Vincent Piazza

“I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc and wonderful writing that comes with the show, but also the history of a person's life.”

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Author:Vincent Piazza

“I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density.”

Thinking Trying Important Body Term Can Do Space Figures Behavior Unique Bones Data Preserves Muscles Measuring Density

Author:John L. Phillips

“Children, a lot of times, can't make their parents wrong because they have to live with them, because they have to love them. And when you're young, you can't get on your Big Wheel and go down to the Best Western. You've got to live there and you've got to figure it out.”

Children Bigs Young Parent Figures Western Wheels

Author:Lana Parrilla

“There are two kinds of directors: There's the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And then there's the kind that throws you in a room, locks the door, sets the house on fire and films it.”

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Author:Michael Pitt

“I like having black hair. When I was really young, I wanted to be Asian - Asian hair is beautiful. I also wanted to look like the girl in George Michael's 'Father Figure' video.”

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Author:Pauley Perrette

“I have now spent over a year trying to figure where in the workplace I belong.”

Trying Years Figures Workplace

Author:Paulina Porizkova

“My come-out record, '10 Day,' was the thing people were supposed to hear and figure out 'he's good' or 'he's not good.' 'Acid Rap' is the comeback tape, and it asks way bigger and better questions than, 'Is he good at rapping?”

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Author:Chance the Rapper

“By 21, I was earning six figures a week. By 23, I had a Ferrari. It was nuts.”

Week Figures Six Nuts Earning Ferrari

Author:Michael J. Fox

“Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.”

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Author:Arthur Rock

“There are moderates in Israel. There are moderates in Iran, there are moderates in the Republican Party, moderates in the Democratic Party. What we need to do is we need link all of these moderates together and to figure out a way by which this particular coalition can speak to important issues to marginalize the voice of the extremists.”

“Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.”

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Author:Gabrielle Reece

“In business, the market gives you feedback in real time. Your sales figures tell you what's working, what isn't, and how you need to change. If you don't listen to the feedback, you go belly up. In philanthropy, there is no market.”

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Author:Jeff Raikes

“Technology has changed, and we need to figure out how to improve the archaic way of what makes a hit, or how to determine how many viewers are watching beyond some people with Nielsen boxes in a small percentage of homes in random areas.”

People Way Needs Home Technology Figures Changed Areas Determine Boxes Viewers Percentages

Author:Jim Rash

“If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity was to be a good-looking single person between 20 and 35, with excellent muscle-definition and/or an excellent figure, and a large disposable income.”

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Author:Francis Spufford

“A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy.”

Self Nice Figures Sexy Self Confidence Physique

Author:Vivica Fox

“I never thought I would get to have my own action figure.”

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Author:Ray Stevenson

“Most of the shows I want to do I'm not smart enough to figure out how to watch.”

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Author:David Spade

“And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.”

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Author:Karlheinz Stockhausen

“People who use the mind and aggressive energy to blow their opponent away can be figured out. Anybody you can figure out you can defeat.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells

Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells

“Think about the flowers. Life is just a bunch of pretty pictures. All this is supposed to do is force you beyond the mind, when you realize that you can't figure it out.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Eventually you're supposed to get so confounded by this whole thing that you just give up completely, and that's when it starts to work. Not give up the practice, but give up trying to figure it out.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Trust yourself. Figure out everything you want, but then don't worry about it. It's all out of our hands. Just let life work through you .”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“In order to choose the right path, we do not have to figure out the wrong one... we just need to follow the light.”

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Author:Akiane Kramarik

“It is kind of hard to figure out who you are when you've lost your job at age 13, when that was basically how you identified yourself.”

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Author:Jodi Sweetin

“On the corner of 57th and 7th Avenue sits the most famous concert hall in the world. No less a figure than when Tchaikovsky led the first performances in 1891. Virtually every major artist has performed there. There is simply no place like it. The first time I stepped foot in Carnegie Hall was in 1964.”

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Book:Leading Tones: Reflections on Music, Musicians, and the Music Industry

Source: Leading Tones: Reflections on Music, Musicians, and the Music Industry

“Politics is its own world. It is a court and if the king's eye lights on you, you are a powerful figure. If the king's eye wanders elsewhere, you are out, whatever your title.”

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Author:Maurice Saatchi

“I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.”

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Book:My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

“My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.”

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Author:Debi Thomas

“It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.”

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Author:James Franco

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