“ I saw all the women and I figured that looked good. I was horney. I got a guitar off my brother and started playing anything. ”
- Angus Young- Copy
- 3K
“ After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases. ”
- Mickey Mantle- Copy
- 2.8K
“ My mom wanted to be an actress, so she figured her son could be one for her. She said she'd give me $100 to take drama instead of home ec-I wanted to be a cook like my pops. ”
- Tobey Maguire- Copy
- 2.6K
“ I figured out, I guess, that the job just makes me happy if it's not number one. So if it all works, great. If it doesn't, I still go home, look at my kids, and I have a big smile on my face. ”
- Thomas Kretschmann- Copy
- 1.1K
“ I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out. ”
- Diana Krall- Copy
- 3.1K
“ I had just come out of college, and I figured that I would probably be in Chicago for the next couple of years, and then maybe, I 'd get a chance to go to New York and hang out with the big boys. ”
- Herbie Hancock- Copy
- 3K
“ Somebody figured it out — we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments. ”
- Earl Wilson- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Initially I wanted to be Muhammad Ali. But then I got into a fight and I got my butt kicked, so I figured I could choose something else. ”
- Babyface- Copy
- 1.6K
“ I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest. ”
- Muhammad Ali- Copy
- 234
“ Weh I was a kid I prayed every night for a bike until I figured out that that's not the way that God works, so I stole a bike and then asked him for forgiveness. ”
- Emo Phillips- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. ”
- Michael Burke- Copy
- 974
“ I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. ”
- Rita Mae Brown- Copy
- 3.4K
“ A long time ago I figured out I was a generalist. That's why I did Climbing Magazine for so long. Part of what appealed to me about that was putting the whole thing together, and understanding how all the aspects of the magazine function, and being able to integrate those and drive the process forward. ”
- Michael Kennedy- Copy
- 278
“ Overall but the rap that we're exposed to is maybe 15% of what's out there. What the major companies have done in the last few years is find out that they couldn't find any more Whitesnakes. They took a look at their marketing budget and put it behind hip-hop and figured out how to make it pop. ”
- Chuck D.- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I got my award for special contributions, and I'm hanging around backstage. I found out, months later, that when I was nominated for Supporting Actor, they figured I didn't have a chance, the other guys had too much background. When they got to Supporting Actor, they practically threw me out on the stage. ”
- Harold Russell- Copy
- 230
“ I would take the wrong approach for a teacher, I guess… But there was always someone in a class who would raise an objection to my way. They'd want to get into an argument with me. And I was no good at arguing. So I figured if that was what teaching was like, I better leave it to someone who knows how to maneuver an argument… ”
- Norman Rockwell- Copy
- 1.7K
“ We just about finished mixing the record at my house in Hawaii, Crosby was there and Russell and Nathaniel, and when we figured out that we would be going out with CSN this year and that we had all this new music. I knew that it would be a burden for Stephen to try and learn 20 new songs, because they - they're not easy. ”
- Graham Nash- Copy
- 3.6K
“ I figured that pitchers had a better chance of getting drafted than fielders, so I decided I should be a pitcher. But I never expected to be picked in the first round. I wasn't even sure I'd get picked at all. ”
- Dwight Gooden- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity. ”
- Tina Fey- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience. ”
- Chuck Close- Copy
- 3.8K
“ When Ty Cobb got on first base he had an apparently nervous habit of kicking the bag… By kicking the bag hard enough Cobb could move it a full two inches closer to second base. He figured that this improved his chances for a steal, or for reaching second base safely on a hit. ”
- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale- Copy
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