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When I graduated college, I remember all I really wanted was to make enough money to have a swimming pool, because I love to swim, to grow my own fruit. I wanted to have a little plot where I could grow my own oranges and make enough money where I could to take two weeks off a year. I figured if I had that, it was game over.
Jesse Itzler
Love
Game
Fruit
Money
Remember
College
Year
Own
Pool
Swimming
Enough
Enough Money
Plot
My Own
Could
Weeks
Take
Had
Over
Make
Because
Off
Oranges
Graduated
Where
Wanted
Little
Really
Figured
Swim
Swimming Pool
Grow
Two
Two Weeks
I deleted my Facebook account when I was 19 because it didn't bring out good qualities in me. I figured, 'Well my mom's got a Facebook. If people want to find me, they can go through her.'
Jesse Plemons
Good
Mom
Me
Facebook
People
Out
Find
Good Qualities
Deleted
Through
Qualities
Well
Because
Got
Go
Account
Want
Figured
Her
Bring
I have 18 tattoos. My tattoos have kind of become their own person. Everybody does stories on them. It is risky to be successful in the fashion industry and to tat your body up, but I figured, the way that I made my career and the way that I am successful is because I have always been myself.
Jessica White
Myself
Fashion
Made
Become
Own
Everybody
Way
Kind
Risky
Industry
Because
Does
Always
Am
Been
Up
Person
Tattoos
Stories
Them
Successful
Body
Your
Your Body
Figured
Fashion Industry
Career
My father raised me to build computers, hardware. Literally, as an 8 year old, I had a soldering iron and circuit boards, and this was in neighbourhoods that wouldn't have a whole lot of money or anything. And I figured out ways to just hustle.
Jidenna
Me
Money
Old
Father
Build
Year
Circuit
Ways
Out
Hustle
Computers
Had
Year-Old
Lot
Iron
Just
Literally
Anything
Boards
Figured
Whole
Hardware
Raised
When I was younger, I thought that straight hair was, like, the only thing. So I was trying to be like Naomi Campbell or Tyra Banks. I didn't know that people would add hair for more length. I'm like, 'Oh all these people just have natural hair like this.' I obviously grew up and figured out that everyone does something to their hair.
Jillian Hervey
Natural
People
Thought
Hair
Add
Everyone
Out
Would
Something
More
Only
Like
Know
Naomi
Obviously
Does
Up
Campbell
Trying
Oh
Just
The Only Thing
Banks
Grew
Length
Straight
Younger
Figured
Thing
But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do.
Jim Hightower
Me
Mother
Three
Out
Tell
Soon
Wrongs
Make
Left
Turns
Used
Figured
Right
Two
I was actually accepted into medical school in Italy. But then I wanted to come back and learn medicine in Germany. And while waiting, I decided to join a business school. I figured it would be useful for doctors to know some business as well!
Jochen Zeitz
Business
Waiting
School
Doctors
Medicine
Back
Would
Would-Be
Some
Join
Come
Know
Well
Learn
Accepted
Italy
Germany
Wanted
Decided
While
Then
Useful
Business School
Figured
Medical
Actually
Medical School
For my part, I have worked all my life with eggs and embryos of frogs. Compared to other small animals, these have figured prominently in the world of literature.
John Gurdon
Life
World
My Life
Animals
Other
All My Life
Embryos
Small
Part
Eggs
Frogs
Literature
Worked
Figured
Compared
I remember seeing McCoy Tyner in concert, and thinking that the music was incredible, but wanting to be invited in. I figured that humor was the way of letting the audience in. I've gotten a hard time about it, but I love to be funny onstage.
John Lurie
Love
Funny
Music
Time
Remember
Humor
Thinking
Incredible
Way
Seeing
About
Onstage
Invited
Concert
Audience
Gotten
Wanting
Hard
Figured
Hard Time
Letting
I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.
John Mayer
Me
Learning
Will
Long
Out
Exactly
Somehow
Something
Take
Know
Look
Learn
Learning Curve
How
Curve
Figured
I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.'
John Sayles
Time
You
Thought
Made
Somebody
Fall
Typewriter
Okay
Horse
Had
Wrote
Said
Were
Off
Cowboys
Just
Story
Movies
Figured
Who
I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'.
John Sayles
Made
First
Way
Out
Budget
Well
Said
Opposite
Going
Happen
Again
Movies
Figured
Ever
Basically
Set
I figured if you're going to do something, you should do it the best you can.
John T. Walton
Best
You
Something
Going
Should
Figured
I was trying to create products to complement the pop-up blocker. All these people were giving me their credit cards. I figured I could sell them something else.
Jon Oringer
Me
People
Giving
Else
Complement
Something
Something Else
Could
Were
Sell
Trying
Them
Create
Products
Figured
Credit
Credit Cards
Cards
I will sing whatever I'm given to sing. Growing up, I would sing anything that I was given. If the choir needed a first tenor, I would sing first tenor. If they needed a bass, I would sing bass. Throughout my life, I just figured out ways to hit notes I needed to hit.
Josh Young
Life
Will
My Life
First
Whatever
Bass
Ways
Out
Would
Given
Throughout
Tenor
Sing
Up
Hit
Just
Anything
Notes
Choir
Figured
Growing
Growing Up
Needed
If you don't travel the world and see as much of it as you can - see different characters in different situations - then how are you going to learn? I figured the best way to do that was to explore as much as I could.
Joshua Sasse
Best
You
Travel
World
Way
Characters
Best Way
See
Could
Learn
How
Going
Situations
Different
Different Characters
Then
Much
Explore
Figured
I've figured out what to do so far, but it's always the next thing you come to where the man with the bucket of ice cold water is waiting - whoosh! in your face. That's why you work with directors who know what to tell you to do.
Judi Dench
Work
You
Man
Waiting
Water
Face
Cold
Out
Tell
Directors
Bucket
Come
Know
Always
Where
Ice
Far
Next
Your
Next Thing
Figured
Who
Why
Thing
Shonda Rhimes has figured it out, of getting multiracial casts on television and appealing to everybody.
Justin Simien
Everybody
Television
Out
Casts
Getting
Figured
Appealing
I don't know why I always liked aerospace engineering. I was in the 10th grade when I figured that's what I wanted to do.
Kalpana Chawla
Engineering
Know
Liked
Always
Aerospace
Grade
Wanted
Figured
Why
It's interesting to try to imagine how early humans discovered what was edible and what wasn't. Who figured out that when you cooked stinging nettles, the sting would go away completely? How many people had to die before the relative toxicity of wild mushrooms became widely known?
Kate Christensen
You
People
Try
Go Away
Before
Mushrooms
Wild
Relative
Out
Would
Had
Known
Edible
Became
How
How Many People
Go
Discovered
Sting
Die
Interesting
Cooked
Figured
Who
Many
Away
Widely
Early
Humans
Imagine
I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.
Kate Upton
Best
World
Goals
Path
Those
Out
Take
Had
Calling
Always
Accomplish
Modeling
Wanted
Agency
Meant
Figured
Career
Some people are born gardeners, some are politicians. I was an actor. It took a great deal of pain before I figured that out. I didn't relate to most of it.
Kathleen Quinlan
Great
People
Great Deal
Some People
Before
Politicians
Pain
Relate
Took
Out
Some
Born
Most
Deal
Figured
Gardener
Actor
I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress.
Kathleen Turner
Good
Great
Women
Theatre
Try
Building
Older
Broadway
Would
Would-Be
Develop
Accepted
Got
Years
Years Ago
Roles
Theatrical
Figured
Chops
Actress
Started
Career
Honestly, I don't think that the policies and issues surrounding guns will be easily figured out in our country, but we need to take a close look, and we need to have a conversation around those issues.
Keith Maitland
Conversation
Will
Country
Think
Honestly
Our
Those
Easily
Out
Guns
Take
Look
Policies
Around
Issues
Surrounding
Close
Figured
Need
The act of me just being robust in the world is so radical - it's so radical for a black woman to think she's going to be a star, because it takes so much to get there. It's still a battle every day, but I feel happy because I feel like I cracked the code and figured out how to work through it. Now I want to give the map to other women.
Kelela
Work
Day
Me
Woman
Happy
Women
Every Day
Battle
World
Black
Radical
Every
Think
Other
Out
Give
Through
Takes
Feel
Like
She
Because
Robust
How
Still
Cracked
Get
Going
Just
Being
Want
Much
Act
Figured
Map
Star
Code
Now
Like many actors, I started off as a monkey. My first job ever was as an extra in Tim Burton's 'Planet of the Apes.' I'm the tiny little monkey in the background. I met Rick Baker doing that - then, because of my size and the fact I was older than 18, he figured I could double Daveigh Chase in 'The Ring.'
Kelly Stables
Job
First
Met
Older
Monkey
Extra
Background
Ring
Chase
Fact
Could
He
Like
First Job
Baker
Because
Tim
Doing
Off
Than
Tiny
Size
Little
Ape
Double
Then
Planet
Rick
Figured
Many
Actor
Ever
Started
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