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It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.
When I was in college, I majored in comparative religion because I really wanted to figure out if there was God and how I should live my life.
My dream job growing up was always to be an artist. It wasn't even that I would be a rapper or singer; I just knew I would be a public figure.
I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.
Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life.
I'd say 99 per cent of the time I write on my own, just with my guitar, and then it's trying to figure out what it needs in a production sense.
The things that I really enjoy doing are finding interesting problems and working together with colleagues to figure out how we can solve them.
A working detective has no hope of understanding what even experts who devote their lives to the study of criminal psychology can't figure out.
Marguerite Duras was a very good friend of mine and an intellectual hero. She was also a sort of mother figure. Of course she was an influence.
Many nations are like rebellious teenagers who try to figure out just how many times they can kick us in the teeth while still taking our money.
We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness.
My philosophy on love is that if it is The One, whatever the circumstances are, you'll figure it out. There's nothing too difficult to overcome.
A fantasy of mine is to do a podcast that's Marcel Marceau and I, and you only hear me laughing at him and trying to figure out what he's doing.
I think what happens is that you do the project first, then you think about what it's about. Years later, you figure out why you've done things.
Apologetic explanations do not develop unless there is a reality that has to be explained and defended. Jesus was undeniably a figure of history.
The cacao content is a wrapper's most important datum, and the acceptable benchmark is seventy per cent. The figure is a measure of 'cocoa mass.'
Ever since I was 15, I've tried to act and talk as if I was a public figure because I was sure that I would be one day and wanted to be prepared.
Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.
No one can take Jesus away from me. There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.
It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
I wish I wasn't so technically challenged, because it puts you at a distinct disadvantage. I wish I could figure out a way to get more up to speed.
I envision the script as a story in my mind, memorize the entire thing and have it play out. It helps me figure out where my character needs to go.
I have a fuller figure and sometimes like to hide my legs. Palazzo pants accentuate my small waist and make me feel a little like Katharine Hepburn.
I'm trying to figure out, Chairman of what Board? People come up to me and seriously say: 'Well, what are you Chairman of?' And I can't answer them.
We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.
I cannot turn my life back around. I'm already a public figure, I'm famous... It's like, I might as well keep it going, might as well make the money.
My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.
Pasteur will be celebrated almost as a God-like figure. This is when the moon completes her great cycle, but by other rumors, he shall be dishonored.
Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly where I want to go.
I always look at the worst situations and try and figure out how I can make them better. Let today's garbage be better than yesterday's, is my motto.
The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
Higher education should provide an environment to test new ideas, debate theories, encounter challenging information, and figure out what one believes.
Generally, our approach with products at Google is to first develop the right user base and then to figure out what's the right experience for the ads.
I'm always trying to figure out ways to one up everyone, and that's what I love about competitions. I love challenging myself and pushing the envelope.
I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.
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.
I always like to appreciate any achievement but then try and figure out how to top that the next time.
A figure with curves always offers a lot of interesting angles.
A figure who receives money from abroad for his political work, and thus serves some foreign interest, cannot be a politician in Russia.
You see figure skaters fall all the time. It's the way you pick yourself back up and keep going.
Basketball is like the one game I can't figure out when it comes to videogames.
It's more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I'm naive, where I'm a novice.
There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.
I've never been someone who is cast for having a lovely figure but for whatever qualities I could possibly bring to a role, so I'm still castable.
My life is pretty small. Even as a successful scientist, I'm not a public figure. I like people - I just don't know that many!
Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.
Every situation I've been in in my career, you just sort of adapt, and figure out where you can be effective.
Our job collectively, players and coaches, is to figure out a way to play that we can put ourselves in a position to win.