#figure

Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

#figure #good #got #how #human

You make a deal. You figure out how much sin you can live with. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#figure #how #live #make #much

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#become #becoming #capone #city #crime

I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal. ↗

— L'Wren Scott

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Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#deal #did #ernest #ernest hemingway #figure

Some people are born gardeners, some are politicians. I was an actor. It took a great deal of pain before I figured that out. I didn't relate to most of it. ↗

— Kathleen Quinlan

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance? ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#chance #figure #hard #hard work #i

I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#figure #i #life #me #means

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#children #education #figure #inclinations #made

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made. ↗

— Joan Rivers

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