"Sports figures are to the '70s what movie stars were to the '60s."
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"The public doesn't care about figures."
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"The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind."
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"Consider those whom you call your enemies and figure out what they should call you."
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"It figures you've got to hate yourself if you've got any integrity at all."
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"President-elect Donald Trump is an unprecedented figure in many respects, in part because there has never been an American president who has such complicated global business interests."
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"I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear."
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"I keep going back to love when I write songs because I can't figure it out."
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"It's through the voice that I tend to figure out the character (and through dialogue that I come to understand other characters)."
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"The central figure in the archaic revival is the shaman."
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"I'm not someone who's sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in."
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"I never thought I would get to have my own action figure."
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"If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it."
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"We figure great careers aren't made. They're experienced."
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"I'm not sure why my muse is female, except when I am deliberately playing against that figure."
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"Crows appear in many of my new unpublished poems. In these walks, they take on a symbolic life apart from their irritating, undeniable, interruptive presence. I figure them differently."
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"I'm halfway intelligent. I'll figure something out."
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"A woman who is very secure in herself, what she's about, what she wants to do, who probably figures that she's a prize catch-sooner or later he's going to come around."
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"Figure out what you are meant to contribute to the world and make sure you contribute it"
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"If it's work, we try to figure out how to do less, If it's art, we try to figure out how to do more"
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