#figure

Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#always #authority #authority figures #because #figures

That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always? ↗

— Frances Farmer

#always #began #bother #children #did

After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work out. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#attempts #became #came #could #couple

I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally. ↗

— Ken Burns

#bass #bass players #become #cult #drummers

I don't know if I'm a national education figure. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#figure #i #know #national

I've always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own. ↗

— Jon Favreau

#because #call #chance #fail #figure

First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis. ↗

— Maria Callas

#first #i #lost #onassis #then

You learn something when you don't play well, and I figure that helping people, it makes me very, very happy. ↗

— Yani Tseng

#happy #helping #helping people #i #learn

For so long I wanted to win the gold medal.Then I won. I had to figure out what was the new motivation to take myself to that place again. ↗

— Bryan Clay

#figure #gold #had #i #long

Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#create #ensure #face #figured #global