#figure

Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

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I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit. Every now and then I wrote something, and every now and then I didn't. The second just outnumbered the first. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#exactly #figure #first #full-time #full-time job

I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#bush #figure #george #george bush #george w

My father was a really funny guy. He lived a good long life. And he was the reason I wanted to be funny and become a comedian and a comedy writer, so to say that he's somewhat of a mythic figure in my life would be an understatement. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#comedian #comedy #father #figure #funny

Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#embarrassed #fantasies #figures #film #film stars

With Jack Abramoff under indictment, a number of readers have suggested that now he might flip and try to offer the feds some figures higher up the food-chain. ↗

— Joshua Micah Marshall

#feds #figures #flip #higher #indictment

You see, 30 years ago I didn't have near the audience I have now. My tapes on the cults have reached a circulation of 15 million. those are not my figures but the figures of the people who distribute them. ↗

— Walter Martin

#audience #circulation #cults #distribute #figures

I figure anything over 13 weeks in this business is pretty good. ↗

— Wink Martindale

#business #figure #good #i #over

But there have been many news reports that water-boarding has been used on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is one of the major al Qaeda figures that we have in U.S. custody. ↗

— Jane Mayer

#been #custody #figures #khalid #major

At the beginning of every week, I like to sit down and figure out what I'm going to make. I probably try at least two new recipes a week. But I have my standbys - jambalaya, meatloaf and mashed potatoes. ↗

— Martina McBride

#down #every #figure #going #i