Harrison Ford
Actor
"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."
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Figures
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Miles Davis
Musician
"I'll play it first and figure out what it's called later."
Ava DuVernay
Film Director
"Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story."
John Green
Author, YouTuber
"Let's make a deal: You figure out what the labyrinth is and how to get out of it, and i'll get you laid. -Alaska Young"
Harriet Monroe
Poet, Editor
"Surely the vogue of those twisted and contorted human figures must be as short as it is artificial."
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"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."
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"Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol."
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"I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse; the dark inside, or the darkness out."
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"The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse."
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"I'm an enigma, an unknown. You can't really figure out what I'm going to do next. I like it like that."
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"To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere."
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"It's not the consumers' job to figure out what they want"
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"Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy."
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"I really love printmaking. It’s like a mystery and you’re trying to figure out how to rein it in."
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"The right to figure things out for yourself is the only true freedom everyone shares. Go use it."
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"You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you're going to sell it."
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"Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. Later on you can figure out what to keep and what to unload."
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"My character of the Tramp, the millions of workers symbolized in that one figure."
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"God and Satan alike are essentially human figures, the one a projection of ourselves, the other of our enemies."
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"Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally."
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"The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it."
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"We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one."
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"John Maynard Keynes essentially said, don't try and figure out what the market is doing. Figure out a business you understand, and concentrate."
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"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."
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"The part of the envelope that tells a person where to place the stamp when they can't quite figure it out for themselves."
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