#figures

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Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.


Grace Napolitano


#citizens #data #facts #figures #forthcoming

If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.


Barney Oliver


#colonization #demanding #far #figures #indicate

I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.


Jackson Pollock


#emerge #figures #i #little #out

Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men.


Mary Harris Jones


#coal #could #fields #fight #figures

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

In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.


Terry Brooks


#around #backing #bad #bad weather #cardboard

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.


Don Marquis


#devil #figures #going #keep #male

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.


Philip James Bailey


#best #count #deeds #dial #feels

Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.


Alan Greenspan


#ayn #ayn rand #before #believe #facts

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


#duchamp #familiar #figures #house #household