Trying Quotes
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Ralph had lost real power by trying to gain the appearance of power. He was a leader. But he was following a program for leaders ; therefore, he was a follower... he was, as he put it, a high-level mediocre.
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I was looking for a new challenge and got an interest in trying to make a difference for families. You become more aware of how important families are. They are the key institution in our culture. The reason I got into politics was to try to make a difference for that key institution, whether it was tax policy, education policy, or whatever.
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Unless you already have a name well known in at least one stratum of society, I don't think trying to do things yourself will be easy - if at all possible.
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The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ’self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for the few and ignore the masses. … I am interested in making art to be experienced and explored by as many individuals as possible with as many different individual ideas about the given piece with no final meaning attached. The viewer creates the reality, the meaning, the conception of the piece. I am merely a middleman trying to bring ideas together.
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I am always trying to put myself inside: Every dress I do, I think, 'If I were a woman, would I wear it?'
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I play a lot of Playstation, and always trying to look pretty for the girls.
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I am trying to understand what it means to be a Christian without being religious.
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If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of intellectual, the chances are two to one he is a Democrat.
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I've always been a fan of AXE and when I heard about their new product and they sent it out to me for me to try and smell and I was like, oh man. It's hard for me to talk about something I don't care about or I'm not really into but once I tried it out for myself I was like, wow okay I can get into this [ collaboration].
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I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.
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I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.
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Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown.
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I'm not trying to be a role model to kids, because I don't have any children, but I do think everyone should have a free spirit.
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But you have to trust your instincts. Because you're not going to try it 20 different ways during rehearsal. You'll try it two or three different ways, maybe, but then you've got five other scenes you're shooting that day. You've got to keep going.
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I've always believed in trying to be as open as possible. I think it almost comes with the job - if you can bare your emotions, it makes for better acting.
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I have a company, and I've got to think about that. I'm trying to do my best there, and that's a much harder task. We recycle as much as possible, and we conserve. But I've always been one to save everything - I even walk up stairs on the very inside or the very outside to not wear out the tread.
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Proof' is going to be, in many ways, a mystery. It's not a procedural in any way. It's not a medical drama. It really is about trying to investigate whether or not there's life after death.
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I'm trying to work on my Spanish.
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Every weekend we've been trying to go out of town, to let people know about this album. I've been trying to host parties. It's hard, because it's a lot of work to do both.
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Trying to sound good at 10 A.M. is the worst.
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I've always thought that you just make everything as best as you can, and then, one day, people will look objectively at what you do, from a distance, and see its quality. All you try to do is keep the standard up so that, one day, when I sit back and I look at it all, I can feel really good about it.
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For me, what is most important is the element of surprise. If I can surprise you with every film of mine, that is exactly what I am trying to do.
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I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.
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I think they (U.S. Congress) hurt our relationships with people that we are trying to get communication and coordination from.
