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  • When I got to 'Saturday Night Live,' it was a lot like going from pre-school to Harvard, and it took a long time to figure stuff out.
  • The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
  • The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
  • For me, the most important thing is to continue to play well and to be a positive figure and hopefully a role model for kids as well.
  • I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
  • When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next.
  • Duane lived life right on the edge. If you ever read Goethe's Faust, Duane Allman was very much that kind of figure. His deal with Mephistopheles was to experience everything life has to offer, good and bad.
  • Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
  • The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now.
  • I'm sort of awkward with technology, and I think I'm the type of guy who would have something cool happen to him, and it would take, like, five days to figure out how to tweet it.
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  • Ben Shapiro 2013 was a year of myths falling apart. The myth of President Obama - a myth in which Obama was a messianic figure descending to bequeath health care, equality, and brotherhood on mankind - imploded. The myth of an America embracing the leftist social agenda collapsed.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Francis Bacon A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Ezra Pound A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Minna Thomas Antrim A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
    Minna Thomas Antrim
    American writer (1861 - 1950)
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  • John Cheever A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.
    John Cheever
    American writer (1912 - 1982)
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  • Bill Gates About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
    Source: Speech at the University of Washington, as reported in Gates, Buffett a bit bearish CNET News (2 July 1998)
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Barbara Cartland After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Roland Barthes All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Woody Allen As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Walter Lippmann Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Bob Schieffer But here's the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can't. I can't even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don't get it.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Anthony Doerr But then of course you reach a point where you have to say, I've got to figure out how this book's going to end. Otherwise, you're going to write yourself into so many dead-ends.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Barry Diller Companies like GE and Procter & Gamble have been in business for a long time. Over decades or a century you're bound to figure out a management structure that works.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • James Magary Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.
    James Magary
     
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  • Marquis de Sade Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband's mood.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Barbara L. Diamond Does the father figure in your cat's life ever clean the litter box? My husband claims that men lack the scooping gene.
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  • Butch Trucks Duane lived life right on the edge. If you ever read Goethe's Faust, Duane Allman was very much that kind of figure. His deal with Mephistopheles was to experience everything life has to offer, good and bad.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Boomer Esiason Educate yourself. Understand what you're dealing with. Then figure out how to fight it. Then figure out how to raise money for that fight. It'll help you cope. It'll help your child.
    Boomer Esiason
    American football player (1961 - )
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  • Joe Louis Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.
    Joe Louis
    American professional boxer (1914 - 1981)
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