Figure Quotes

As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the '70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.

It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.

We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit. Every now and then I wrote something, and every now and then I didn't. The second just outnumbered the first.

Well, you have absolutely no idea what a nightmare it was to be on a set, trying to figure out how I was going to find out what time it is, how I was going to get my meds, and at the same time not have it be obvious to someone.

Mitch Hurwitz was like a father figure to me. He was so sweet, and he's just so smart.

It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn't work.

Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.

Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.

I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density.

If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it.

If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!

I hope Gunter Grass will continue helping the SPD in campaigns and that he will otherwise remain with us as a provocative literary figure, as well.

I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.

Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.

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 the new wave of terrorism came on the modern world, which is the late 1960s, early 1970s, I think we spent about a decade, the United States and our allies, trying to figure out how to deal with it.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

I didn't figure out the makeup or cute hair or clothes until oh, maybe my junior year of high school.

I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening.

RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.

It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua - that even in conditions of peace they don't seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous.

I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.

I knew there was something I had to do yesterday. I couldn't remember what it is. I can't figure it out. I know it's a holiday. I know I don't have a meeting. It's very confusing.

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?

I don't walk off and come back for encores. I figure I can add four weeks to my life that way.

There are a lot of girls that will try to hook up with you, then try to have your kid because they figure they're going to get all this money from you.