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Yes, there were gas chambers. Millions of Jews died. There is no question. I don't know the figures. I'm not an expert on the Holocaust.
I like when you look at me like you can’t figure me out. You’re considering getting to know me, but you’re not sure I’m worth your time.
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.
When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you.
Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
You've got to figure out which end of the needle you're gon' be, the one that's fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth.
That's the only way that I can figure out how to live, is to say, "Well, I don't know what this adds up to, but I can do the best I can."
We live in a nation where, when New Jersey figures out how to do something and does it well, and shows progress, it affects other states.
I've come up with the theory that the music is within. We don't bring it in; it's already there. We have to figure out how to get it out.
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.
When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.
I took some time off to enjoy my life, but figure skating is something I love and something I will continue doing for the rest of my life.
Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.
They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo.
Universities are very clarifying places of power, because everyone is focused on trying to figure out exactly what to do with their lives.
The assumption that everybody will figure out how much they have to save and then will just implement that plan is obviously preposterous.
I've had a lot of mother figures. But by the time my mom came into my life, it wasn't a 'mommy' thing. It's more of an adult relationship.
Andre Agassi is one of the world's most popular and admired figures. He has lived an extraordinary life, and he has a great story to tell.
I began [blogging] because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.
Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.
President Clinton is one of the dominant figures on the global stage. He has lived an extraordinary life, and he has a great story to tell.
How can you do the right thing when you can't figure out what that is? When all you have before you are choices in various shades of wrong?
I know, in India, specially in Bollywood and the sports fraternity, there is a lot of negative media attention on prominent public figures.
All of us, whether public figures or private individuals, should feel safe in our own homes and not fear surveillance from nosy neighbours.
If women are the key to Africa's future - and I believe they are - we must figure out how to take away the barriers to their participation.
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.
The viewing figures for 'Lost' were huge. I don't think the viewing figures for 'The 100' are up there with 'Lost'; hopefully, they will be.
They say it figures MTV would do such a vulgar, awful, horrible show and they completely miss that it's satirizing the people who watch MTV.
Optical units close to each other on a picture plane tend to be seen together and, consequently, one can stabilize them in coherent figures.
The tabloids had a field day with 'Tipping The Velvet,' which was great for the viewing figures but not necessarily for the actors involved.
Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.
When you have little girls bringing you your action figures for you to sign, it's like, 'Wow, things are happening, and dreams do come true.'
I could take my time, and nobody was pressuring me to be a headliner. I could go up there, find my voice, and figure out what I wanted to do.
There's really no "bad" people; there's just humans who are doing the best they can to figure life out. It's hard! We can all relate to that.
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.
I know my flavor's going to work because I just know there's not a lot of guys like me around. So you got to figure out what's that about you.
The American intelligentsia has been pretty secular for a long time. There have always been figures like Oprah Winfrey, let's put it that way.
You have only one life, and no one else will live it for you. Shouldn't you take the time right now to figure out what that life is all about?
Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don't try to imitate anybody else's success. Figure out how to do it for yourself with yourself.
It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer.
The trick [in comedy] is always to figure out how real you're playing it and how real it's supposed to feel. That's a hard thing to figure out.
I'm trying to figure things out in the world. No one knows what this life thing is all about - there's no manual. Just trying to figure it out.
I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.
John Maynard Keynes essentially said, don't try and figure out what the market is doing. Figure out a business you understand, and concentrate.
When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out and you can come up with ideas that are counter-productive.
I just have to remind myself that my daily quotidie in life has almost nothing to do with any aspect of my professional life as a public figure.
When I look at the people who are the guiding figures in modern dance, I think, 'This does not look to me like the way I want to spend my days.'
Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be doing.
Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.
I always felt my emancipation into truly being a grown-up was when I had to figure out how to fold up a king-size fitted bottom sheet on my own.