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I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'
I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.
A contemporary painting is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it and not a predetermined figure.
The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.
My assistants generally do all the flowers and all of the decorative work. I concentrate on the figure.
With WWE, it's a massive machine, and you will air in 120 countries and have action figures and towels.
To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere.
A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.
I never weep over lost money, for I figure I'd rather go to the poorhouse once than go there every day.
I will not let my sales figures dictate what I say on the blog, because the blog is what I want to say.
The Jews are the conscience of the world. They are the father figures, stern, critical, and forbidding.
For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.
All I did was take my time, figure out where I made a lot of mistakes and try not to make them no more.
My life was one very long process of lying and lying again, to figure out how to cover those other lies.
If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.
Doing the right thing is easy. [It is] much more difficult [to...] figure out what [the right thing] is.
The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.
You'd figure he'd go do something with his life, like maybe he could enlist and actually become a marine!
Ask yourself: Where do I want to go? Recognize where you are now, then figure out the steps to get there.
And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.
I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out.
I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.
I'm really convinced I`m not talented at all, and I'm sure that people are just about to figure that out.
I collect wrestling figures from overseas, like Japanese wrestling figures and Mexican wrestling figures.
Nelson Mandela was a towering figure in our time; a legend in life and now in death - a true global hero.
We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.
I never struggled with trying to figure out what it was I wanted to do or what made the sparks go for me.
I went to government for making these changes. I remember a number of guys among these important figures.
I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.
The whole movement of an essay is propelled by a fundamentally human impulse to want to figure things out.
Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.
I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is.
We all idolize sports figures, and we see them fall from grace. You just truly never know anybody anymore.
In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.
Overnight, I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one. I was Patient Zero.
People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers.
Many even see in Obama a messiah-like figure, a great soul, and some affectionately call him Mahatma Obama.
My 20s were a time where I made it; my 30s were when I was away, confused, and trying to figure it all out.
It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again.
I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse; the dark inside, or the darkness out.
I felt like high school for me was like a big whirlpool of me trying to figure out what was OK for me to do.
Kat bought a New York Times but couldn’t figure out how to operate it, so now she’s fiddling with her phone.
What I try to do is never to hurt anybody else and figure if I don't, then I'm not likely to get hurt myself.
I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!
And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
My ability has always been to walk out on the stage and see the audience and figure out what they wanna hear.
I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.
If a woman is into me, it usually takes me awhile to figure that out. She has to hit me over the head with it.
I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.