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I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.
I have got to figure out a system because I have bad filing, sorting, and organizing habits.
And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.
The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure.
A fundamental premise of politics is we can make this work if people just never figure it out.
Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves.
The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.
I'm not sure why my muse is female, except when I am deliberately playing against that figure.
I figure it's okay to make certain rules, whether or not people despise you for it at the time.
The arithmetical symbols are written diagrams and the geometrical figures are graphic formulas.
But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood.
I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else.
I used to enjoy the anonymity of being a literary figure and occasionally a public radio figure.
The right to figure things out for yourself is the only true freedom everyone shares. Go use it.
Films are deprived of the conventional elderly figures now. They are more into yo moms and dads.
To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.
I suppose, mother-in-laws are frightening figures. Especially, more so for mother-in-laws to be.
I try to get a vision of the future, and then I try to figure out where the discontinuities are.
Stop doing what you're able to do and figure out what you were made to do - then do lots of that.
If you're going to do something that lasts 90 minutes, you can't really do it with stick figures.
Viewers figure, 'Uncle Willard doesn't know any more about the weather than I do.' They're right.
I really love printmaking. It’s like a mystery and you’re trying to figure out how to rein it in.
There are a million things in music I know nothing about. I just want to narrow down that figure.
I couldn't figure out what to wear under my clothes. The body shapers were too thick at the time.
A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.
Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say
When companies start out, they figure out a better way to do something, and they're very relevant.
I have only an appetite for masochistic truth, and only box-office collection figures interest me.
There is so much talent among our young people; I hope the women in 'Hidden Figures' inspire them.
Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.
A silent figure is the dancer, true but still, words become dance, and all things there express'd.
If it's work, we try to figure out how to do less, If it's art, we try to figure out how to do more
Surely the vogue of those twisted and contorted human figures must be as short as it is artificial.
I figure that my staff will be less reluctant to work overtime if I work longer hours than they do.
I started to think of 'Hidden Figures' as the first part of a mid-century African-American trilogy.
I don't know the figures, but Hollywood must buy 100 rights for every movie that actually gets made.
I always knew that I would be some type of public figure, but I never knew that it would be rapping.
When you figure out love is all that matters after all, it sure makes everything else seem so small.
Listen to authority figures because of their position, but only believe them if they can explain why.
There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
What is happening now is that producers are trying to figure out new ways to distribute that content.
It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.
I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.
I'm so drawn to the frontier mentality and that idea of having to figure everything out from scratch.
We don't talk about tennis. I figure she knows what she's doing. I mean, what am I going to tell her?
He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.
Africa is always only portrayed as a continent of suffering, but most figures are vastly exaggerated.
I never became a producer to go to parties or wear nice clothes or put sales figures on my Wiki page.