Trying Quotes
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I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.
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My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That's basically it. I'm not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I'm just reflecting on life.
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Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say.
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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.
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We're trying to provide a platform for applications. We think that's the next level. We are trying to become the Windows of the internet.
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What is the variation trying to tell us about a process, about the people in the process?
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My whole life has been nothing but trying to find a way to take care of my mom and take care of my family as quickly as possible.
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Hopefully, there's a place in music for Tinted Windows. If we're really trying to be iconic, we should just stop right now. If one of us could die, that would also help. But I don't think anybody wants that gig.
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I'm not trying to amass people in the streets. I just want them to be more aware.
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I actually prefer Twitter as a medium, and I also got into Periscope for a second, but I'm still trying to figure out what to do with it. I can't figure out if the only important thing about it is the live broadcast, or if it's an interesting kind of way to log what you do.
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Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.
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And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.
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I never, my producer never, we never let myself just sing. We were always trying to get the perfect vocal.
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If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.
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It is hard to be number one, and it is even harder to stay there because everyone is trying to knock you off the top.
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Republicans in the South... are trying to find ways, not so much to block black and brown people from voting, but to block black and brown people from getting people they want elected, which is a far more subtle thing to do.
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We started getting the script to different people and we were in the business of trying to fund it so we could get it off and running, and all the characters and sets designed and everything.
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I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them.
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I think it’s more to do with economics now. Earlier, one used to wait in queues for hours in the heat, trying to buy a ticket, to go and see Shammiji in Junglee or Dilip saheb in Ganga Jamuna. Whereas now, thanks to the video boom, one gets the stars in one’s bedroom at a snap of one’s fingers. There is no mystique left.
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Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color.
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I have just been the man in the middle, trying to make sure that we steer the right course.
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If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.
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I do think we've become so reliant that the phones are never out of our reach. We're always trying to stay connected that way and the irony is that it's actually disconnecting us from everything else because we're not just focused on what's in front of us; we focus on what's in our hand or off to the side.
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My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar.
