Norman Cousins Quotes
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There's such a strong community element in country - it's like a family. So I don't want to do anything that can come off, even if I'm not intentionally doing it, as giving the perception that I'm trying to abandon that family.
Sam Hunt -
Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!
Eddie Marsan -
We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.
Lady Gaga -
As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.
Patrick Rothfuss -
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 -
At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices.
Qandeel Baloch
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Am I good enough to be No. 1? Sure, but who's gonna break Tiger's legs? I want to be the best. Can I? Oh, believe me, I will be trying. Hard. You grow up in Colombia, and everything is limited. Then, I come here, and you have everything. A trainer, nutritionist, coach. I'm very lucky. Many doors open, and I have a path to take.
Camilo Villegas -
If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our planet - microorganisms like bacteria and viruses.
Nathan Wolfe -
The World Wide Web was precisely what we were trying to PREVENT- ever-breaking links, links going outward only, quotes you can't follow to their origins, no version management, no rights management.
Ted Nelson -
Lately, I love creating ideas on my acoustic guitar. I sit in my living room for hours trying different chords.
Martin Garrix Area21 -
I like cutting through complexity and trying to get to the kernel of an idea.
Belinda Johnson -
Everybody's trying to repeat the past with the new network, with new devices and new tools. Why not make something brand-new?
Om Malik
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I'm just living each day, and I'm better equipped to do so. I mean, I used to be totally afraid, I used to have, like, permanent stage fright. But now I'm trying to have fun. I'm trying to bring as much happiness to as many people as possible.
Rivers Cuomo Weezer -
I had people when I was younger trying to feel me up. Older men. I just told them to get lost.
Jeremy Irons -
It's really fun to see young kids trying to find excellence in themselves.
Jewel Kilcher -
I'm always trying out new stuff onstage. That's where I do all my writing.
Patton Oswalt -
The most important thing to Ben and me was starting a family, so as soon as we got engaged, we booked Gurney's in Montauk - which is just a few miles down the beach from our summer home - as our wedding venue a full year and a half out, and then we immediately started trying to get pregnant.
Jennifer Hyman -
I don't have any horror stories of trying to start as a comedian and eating it constantly on stage.
Jenny Slate
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All I know is, I'm trying to do things that are a little different whenever I can.
Laurence Fishburne -
I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up.
George Benson -
With Germany conquered, the Kremlin checkmated, Japan converted, it became easier - safer - to peek around looking for someone to fear... and maybe do something about. Ideally, somebody far away, from a country about which almost nothing was known.
David Douglas Duncan -
I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.
Jeff Buckley -
Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.
Norman Cousins