Quotes about figure
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Émile Banning photo

“The King is no longer the same; the change of character and spirit observed in him for two or three years is accentuated and makes fear of a catastrophe, at a time when he had only to let it go to be a remarkable King, perhaps to become a large figure.”

Émile Banning (1836–1898) academic, civil servant

Source: All the King's Men' A search for the colonial ideas of some advisers and "accomplices" of Leopold II (1853-1892). (Hannes Vanhauwaert), Emile Banning (1836-1898): The Don Quichotte of the ‘liberal civilization’ in Congo, A romantic associate of Leopold II. http://www.ethesis.net/leopold_II/leopold_II.htm#_ftn194 WILLEQUET, J. Le baron Lambermont, 103.

Fear , Time , Change
Edward G. Robinson photo

“You know, I've always figured the waiting is what I get paid for. The acting I do free.”

Edward G. Robinson (1893–1973) Romanian American actor

Source: On the set of Soylent Green (1973), in response to a fellow cast member's complaints; as quoted in In the Arena : An Autobiography (1995) by Charlton Heston, p. 477 https://archive.org/details/inarenaautobiogr0000hest_l8c1/page/476/mode/2up

Waiting

“I am what you might call a controversial figure: people either hate me or despise me.”

Brother Theodore (1906–2001) German-American monologuist and comedian
Hate , People
Donald J. Trump photo

“I was right and everyone knows it. If there is fraud or large scale irregularities, it would have been appropriate to send those votes back to the legislatures to figure it out.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

2022, February 2022
Source: 4 February 2022 per 7 February 2022 report by Reuters Pence says Trump was wrong that he could have overturned 2020 election https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pence-says-trump-was-wrong-that-he-could-have-overturned-2020-election-result-2022-02-04/ by Alexandra Ulmer

Fraud

“[A] profit and loss statement is not simply a collection of figures, but rather—for the perceptive banker—a window into the nuts and bolts of the business, from its method of operation to its management philosophy.”

Henry Kaufman (1927) American economist

On Money and Markets (2000)

Loss , Business
Jonathan Blow photo

“The way I think about puzzles is a real puzzle, is something you may not ever figure out.”

Jonathan Blow (1971) American video game designer and programmer

Q&A session https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK9nxanN9BM&t=2060s at Graz Technical University, November 2017

Thinking , Way

“Women really do rule the world, they just haven't figure it yet. When they do, and they will, we're all in big trouble.”

Leon MacLaren (1910–1994) British philosopher

Dr Leone, quoted in: Kabir, Hajara Muhammad (2010). Northern women development. [Nigeria]. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657.

Women , World
Mallika Sherawat photo

“I am indeed veg and proud of it! How do you think I maintain this body figure?”

Mallika Sherawat (1976) Indian actress

When a fan asked Mallika on her Twitter page if she was a vegetarian; as quoted in "Sexiest Veggies" https://web.archive.org/web/20121001155713/http://www.ndtv.com/photos/entertainment/anupama-verma-sizzles-for-peta-574/slide/7, NDTV.com (October 1, 2012).

Thinking

“WHO WAS J. F. LEHMANN?
This book postulates that Adolf Hitler made a subtle, but all-important shift from proselytizing the myth of Germans as the oppressed victims of an “international Jewish conspiracy” to that of the superior race and oppressor because of J. F. Lehmann. It is not until after J. F. Lehmann brought Hitler the infamous Baur-Fischer-Lenz book on eugenics that Hitler’s speeches shifted from the stab-in-the-back myth, or the “Dolchstoßlegende,” with Germans as the oppressed victims of betrayal, to the eugenic propaganda of Germans as the pinnacle of white-supremacy. Weakness and superiority are incompatible attributes, and J. F. Lehmann is responsible for the shift away from the weakness inherent in victimhood to a racial superiority. Thus, it begs to question, who was this pivotal figure in Adolf Hitler's life, and why is his name and history not part of the commonly accepted history of The Holocaust? Nothing of The Holocaust or World War II can be understood without documenting who was Julius Friedrich Lehmann. Yet, J. F. Lehmann barely makes it onto the radar of even the most thorough books on the subject, and then only to name him as the person who delivered the Baur-Fischer-Lenz book to Adolf Hitler at Landsberg prison.”

A.E. Samaan

Source: From a "Race of Masters" to a "Master Race": 1948 to 1848

History , Personality , Question , Life