Quotes with figure

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  • Bill Bruford If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it.
    Bill Bruford
    English drummer, composer and producer (1949 - )
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  • David Hockney If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.
    David Hockney
    English painter and printmaker (1937 - )
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  • Cher If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.
    Cher
    American singer and actress (1946 - )
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  • Boris Johnson In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?
    Boris Johnson on South Bank for Barclays Cycle Hire launch, London SE1, 30 July 2010
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Barry Humphries In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Arthur Cohn It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.
    Arthur Cohn
    American film producer (1927 - )
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  • Billy Dee Williams It was a time after 'Lady Sings the Blues' and 'Mahogany' and all those romantic movies: I became this romantic figure on the street in a very special way.
    Billy Dee Williams
    American actor, voice actor, and artist (1937 - )
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  • Barry Watson It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.
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  • Alan Alda It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Bill Gurley It's not for everybody to tweet, it's for everybody to follow. The more people figure that out, they see it's RSS-plus. It's literally the place you check for information.
    Bill Gurley
    American businessman (1966 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to regard the hero as the leading figure.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Alan Dershowitz Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.
    Alan Dershowitz
    American lawyer and author (1938 - )
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  • Beau Bridges My brother and I are always trying to figure out a way to work again together.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • Ben Folds My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Charles M. Schultz My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right.
    Charles M. Schultz
    American cartoonist (1922 - 2000)
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  • Barack Obama My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Albrecht Durer No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
    Albrecht Durer
    German painter (1471 - 1528)
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  • B. B. King Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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