"If you can figure out how you're feeling, then maybe you have a chance of getting over it."
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"When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong."
"I've never known my real father, and I've never looked for a father figure in a boyfriend, but I suppose I have looked for real father figures in my life - and I've acquired more than one. I certainly couldn't ask for better ones. I love them enormously - and they know that."
"There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself."
"I'm really convinced I`m not talented at all, and I'm sure that people are just about to figure that out."
"The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches with pencil."
"I have got to figure out a system because I have bad filing, sorting, and organizing habits."
"Loss teaches you to figure things out as they come along."
"That whole thing about masturbating. Most girls, I guess nobody has to tell them, they just figure it out. I had to be told. Some girl actually had to show me a hairbrush and demonstrate exactly what to do. I just never figured that stuff out naturally."
"Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that."
"As a designer, I love to explore user edge cases and figure out what appear to be rules."
"I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me."
"They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that."
"You can't just wish to be a millionaire; you have to figure out how to earn it."
"Nothing is going to change in congo until you and i figure out what is wrong with the person inside the mirror"
"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."
"We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it."
"We can figure it out, it's not like we all have a disease."
"Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened."
"I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world."