#figure

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from. ↗

— Mae West

#every man #figure #i #man #me

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures. ↗

— Martha Beck

#afraid #authority #authority figures #doctors #figures

Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech. ↗

— Trevanian

#figures-of-speech #irony #speech

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it. ↗

— Morton Hunt

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It's a character that I always found really likable. I'm fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for the people. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

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I want to get back and figure out how we're going to make 'The Tonight Show' funny and good. ↗

— Andy Richter

#figure #funny #get #going #good

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#often #only #out #people #person

Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in the literal sense - names of familiar figures around the house. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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That's all true, but there was something else going on for me as a kid, something about my gender identity that I haven't figured out yet. And that's one of the things I'm hoping to dissect and investigate in this memoir project. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#dissect #else #figured #gender #going