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I once tried to figure out the first time I felt guilt, and it goes so far back that I might have been an inch long at the time.
Many of the companies in the mobile location space are trying to figure out different ways to tie what they're doing to commerce.
I'm drawn to the figure of the ungrateful subaltern as a trope in literature. In real life, it is often dangerous to demand more.
I just write stuff down and pile it up, and when I get enough stuff, I spread it out and look at it and figure out how to use it.
Communicators need to figure out how well do they engage people, and they should not talk one word longer than people are engaged.
Read. Read. Read. Read many genres. Read good writing. Read bad writing and figure out the difference. Learn the craft of writing.
We really liked the magic of 'Harry Potter' and 'The Lord of the Rings,' but we could never figure out where the powers came from.
I actually had a Bobby Orr action figure. You could put the pads on him and skates and all that. I was 7, and he was still playing.
When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
Give me something to assemble, I won't look at the directions, I'll try to figure it out by myself. It's why I love Ikea furniture.
In my case you can pretty well figure that you can put a beret and a mustache on just about anything you want and it looks like me.
Going through something difficult in your life, music, for me, is always a friend and something that helps you to figure things out.
I don't mind it so much if I get type cast as an authority figure. I get to do comedy no matter what it is, so it doesn't bother me.
You've gotta learn to love yourself and live your own life. Then you can go out in the world and try and figure everything else out.
If you don't know a lot about figure skating, it's easy to fall in love with ice dancing because it's so romantic and so theatrical.
Despite the usual idea of a figure skater, I have no rhythm when it comes to even walking off the ice. I fall off curbs all the time.
If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.
A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
Good generalship is the realisation that you've got to figure out how to accomplish your mission with the minimum loss of human life.
Stealing bases is just something I like to do. I figure if I can hit home runs and steal bases, I'd be different than everybody else.
This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.
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.
Twitter is great to connect with fans and be transparent. I enjoy that aspect about it. But really, I'm still trying to figure it out.
When you turn your team upside down and try to figure out what the culture of the team is, you take the greatest risk a team can take.
I never want to be a father figure to my quarterbacks. I've got my own kids. I want to be the cool uncle you'd like have a drink with.
If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun.
I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there.
I was anti social, but at the same time, people gravitated to that because they wanted to figure out who I was and why I was how I was.
I feel like in a world where we all try to figure out our place and our purpose here, your passions are one of your most obvious guides.
What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals.
Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't. It's no big deal.
I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out and find my voice.
A journalist can make or break a case, in a way, because they can figure out things the police can't, or they can destroy people's lives.
There's a level of protection you need to give to your kids, and then sometimes you need to just let them figure out things on their own.
I'm really open to doing music. We just have to figure out what kind of music it's going to be - something where I don't feel compromised.
A lot of people don't know that Beethoven, when he wrote the Fifth Symphony, that second movement, he took eight years to figure that out!
You can spend the rest of your life trying to figure out what other people expect from you, or you can make a decision to let that all go.
Everyone is where they are at because they worked hard for it. Don't ever hate on someone's hustle. Just figure out how you can get there.
I think it's important that filmmakers look at the technology and figure out how to make the theatrical experience a little more exciting.
I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it can be confused.
You ask why I'm fascinated by the human figure? As a human animal, I am interested in some of my fellow animals: in their minds and bodies.
I don't get surprised very often to be honest. I'm the kind of person who you couldn't throw a surprise party for because I'd figure it out.
My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he was a presence.
If you're a public figure, and if you're working in the White House, you should expect everything you're saying in any context to be leaked.
Often times, when you find an edge, it's not for very long. People figure it out, so you have to try and exploit it, quickly, while you can.
A financial plan is a way to take all of the money advice you come across and figure out how it applies to your specific financial situation.
I'm trying to figure out the trick of working to live as opposed to living to work, but I don't know if I've quite stumbled upon it just yet.