Raheem DeVaughn Quotes

I'm constantly trying to create timeless music that many people can gravitate to.

Raheem DeVaughn

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• I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.

  

  Patrick White
  • Trying
  • Faith
  • Air

• Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Trying
  • Politicians

• It's just kinda irritating to me that we're awarding people in mixed martial arts for trying to move away and not finish the fight.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • People
  • Trying
  • Fight

• If you know your characters well enough, you aren't trying to grasp for storylines. You're really thinking about their flaws and their passions and what they're chasing.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Know

• 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 spent a couple of years not doing any music or anything, just here in Hawaii trying to get healthy and adjust to the new regimen I was setting up for myself.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Up
  • Music
  • Trying

• I'm from Kansas, so there were a lot of vacant lots and open fields to tackle each other in so we could avoid tackling each other on the street. But running on the street and trying not to get taken down on the concrete, that will make you fast, that's for sure.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Trying
  • Running
  • Taken

• Fat Joe ain't out here trying to battle-rap everybody in the world. That's not what I'm about.

  

  Fat Joe
  • World
  • Trying
  • Rap

• A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Look

• In the United States, I always say that what makes America exceptional is not the fact that we’re perfect, it's the fact that we struggle to improve. We're self-critical. We work to live up to our highest values and ideals, knowing that we're not always going to achieve them perfectly, but we keep on trying to perfect our union.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Work
  • Live

• The chief impression left by a study of Crowley's life and works is that he wasted an immense amount of time and energy trying to shock everyone he came into contact with, and his dislike of orthodoxy turned him into an unconsciously comic figure, like Don Quixote.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Trying

• I don't like to see people using their power over others, trying to hurt people who are weak or poor or people with darker skin or anyone who doesn't have as much privilege. It makes me so angry. I want to fight for people. I want to be able to make some kind of difference in the world.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• I know so few people who actually give music their undivided attention, so I've been trying to just park myself on the couch between the speakers and listen.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• I went to acting school, and there were twenty other actors in my class who were exceptional. It's hard for anybody to get work. When I was trying to get jobs, I felt a responsibility to be respectful of the opportunities and take challenging things that could be interesting both for me as an actor and for the audience.

  

  Billy Crudup
  • Work
  • Trying
  • School

• I had people when I was younger trying to feel me up. Older men. I just told them to get lost.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • People
  • Up
  • Men

• I think it's our job as writers for Marvel Comics to continue to create those type of stories that can be mined instead of just trying to give readers exactly what they see on film.

  

  Jason Aaron
  • Trying
  • Job

• We build camera rigs tailored specifically to the story we're trying to tell or the shot we're trying to capture.

  

  Chris Milk
  • Trying

• We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education.

  

  Charles Vest
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Education

• I'm the original hunter-down-of-fabulous-things. Twenty years ago I sat down and decided that I would create a really wonderful image, an unforgettable image. And now I'm kind of stuck with it. It's like when I don't wear my fringy, gypsy stuff, people kind of look at me like, 'What's wrong?

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • People
  • Create
  • Image

• But I came from a conservative Republican background.

  

  Christopher Meloni

• This is boxing, not tennis. Everyone likes a bit of rivalry, it makes for a good fight.

  

  Anthony Joshua
  • Good
  • Tennis
  • Boxing

• It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play - their ability to deal with loss or victory, their ability to meld strategic thinking and brute force - can be taken as a small-scale model of how they, or others like them, might behave in life.

  

  Will Self
  • Thinking
  • Taken
  • Victory

• I have to be where the best work can be done.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Work
  • Done
  • Best

• I'm constantly trying to create timeless music that many people can gravitate to.

  

  Raheem DeVaughn
  • Trying
  • Create
  • Timeless