Chris Moneymaker Quotes

If you see me playing a $1/$2 no-limit on PokerStars, I'm probably experimenting with something, trying something new seeing how it works.

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• Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
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  • Man
  • English

• The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Trying
  • She
  • Kids

• Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Different
  • Trying

• If you're trying too hard to be the girl next door, you're not going to be.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Trying
  • Girl
  • Door

• I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • World
  • Trying
  • Power

• I'm not trying to be the next Dave Grohl or Phil Collins.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
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  • Next
  • Dave

• Anthony Johnson hits harder than any other person, no doubt. Every time he hit me, it made me kind of, like, fly all over the place. He was trying to take my head off.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Doubt

• You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Done

• I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
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  • Why
  • Know

• When I read about genetics, I see breakthroughs every day. And while I'm trying to learn more about behavioral science, I must say that I don't feel I get tremendous intellectual stimulation from most of the things I read.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
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  • Science
  • Day

• The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.

  

  Patricia Richardson
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  • Family
  • Truth

• Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • God
  • Nothing
  • Without

• Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
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  • Excel

• I guess my feeling is is that if you're going to make a joke, that's fine, but you should also sort of stand behind it, you know? A joke should be more than a joke, it should be a point that you're trying to make.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Trying
  • Feeling
  • Know

• I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.

  

  Pat Summitt
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  • Me
  • Coach

• I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie.

  

  Dana Delany
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.

  

  Rami Malek
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Trying
  • Perfect
  • Design

• I think a lot of times people design restaurants with flash in mind. I think you should design restaurants with function in mind. Make sure it's functional and works with what you're trying to accomplish. Design can come later.

  

  Bobby Flay
  • People
  • Mind
  • Trying

• Lucy went first, biting her lip and trying not to say all the things she thought of saying to Susan. But she forgot them when she fixed her eyes on Aslan.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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  • She
  • Eyes

• With a defeat, when you lose, you get up, you make it better, you try again. That's what I do in life, when I get down, when I get sick, I don't want to just stop. I keep going and I try to do more. Everyone always says never give up but you really have to take that to heart and really do never definitely give up. Keep trying.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Trying
  • Giving
  • Sick

• The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.

  

  Washington Irving
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Down

• I'm fantasizing about being the best superstar I can be and improving.

  

  Jinder Mahal

• If you see me playing a $1/$2 no-limit on PokerStars, I'm probably experimenting with something, trying something new seeing how it works.

  

  Chris Moneymaker
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