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.
It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.
One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure.
Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.
I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.
Shortly after my dad died, my mom figured that if I could do a few commercials, I'd get a college fund.
One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
I never really cook from recipes. But the worst is when something turns out great and I can't figure out how to make it again!
Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.
I did this thing with Trisha Yearwood, a song called 'The Price.' I had been sitting on it for a while, because I figured, you know, this really needs a good singer.
I'm not a xenophobe - I think immigration is a good thing for most countries - but they transmute the foibles of their native tongues into English in a way that's difficult to figure out.
I hate the feeling of falling - I'll never jump from a plane - but I love a good roller coaster. Go figure!
The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there.
Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.
Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the function of the scientist was to figure out the mathematical rules whereby the universe was created.
I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.
I was a manual labourer. I figured out really early on that the value of my life could be determined by my hourly rate as a manual labourer digging holes.
I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.
I've just grown up a lot and started to encounter some of the big decisions of life in terms of what career I wanted to do and figuring out personal relationships and things.
I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
