Trying Quotes
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I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk.
John Fahey
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I'm not trying to change an image, I'm just trying to make sure that the facts match the image. The facts are basically that I'm a builder. I have not dissembled any company nor split up any companies, nor do I ever buy any companies with that intent.
Harold Simmons
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In terms of my career, it began in earnest when I was living in Boston. I started doing my own films, working initially as an editor and editing assistant - briefly - at WGBH, as an editor on other people's movies, trying to get some experience under my belt, but eventually just doing my own short films, doing them my way.
Brad Anderson
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It's not so weird that four generations are living together under the same roof and trying to make it work. It's how a lot of people in this country are living right now.
Martha Plimpton
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If people like us, our life is good. If somebody doesn't like us, our whole life is tanked. That happens at your job, especially in church ministry. It seems like everybody's your boss sometimes. You're trying to keep everybody happy and pretty soon you realize you're filling yourself up with other people's opinions of you. That's a dangerous place to live.
Mark Hall
Casting Crowns
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I've been trying to put weight on my whole life, and I've been able to do it.
Jared Goff
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A girlfriend had caught me in a compromising situation with another girl, ... In trying to defuse the situation, I said 'please, stop in the name of love,' as corny as that may sound. Then I said 'Wow, did you hear that cash register? That's how things happen, songs come out of nowhere.
Lamont Dozier
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If you're working for somebody and trying to check on them, it never works. You're just saying what they want you to say at the end of the day.
Matthew Stewart
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It's about the journey and the process. I do things because I love doing them, or trying them.
Liz Phair
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God reveals himself to those who wait for that revelation, and who don't try to tear at the hem of a mystery, forcing disclosure.
Catherine Doherty
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'Give us cash! I steal from the rich and give to the poor! I'm trying to be a myth; give us cash!' 'No, I'm not gonna give you cash.' 'Go on, I steal from the rich. Are you rich?' 'No, I'm … comfortable.' 'That's no good, I can't steal from the fairly well off and give to the moderately impoverished! That's not gonna swing, is it?'
Eddie Izzard
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We should be aware and constantly having conversations about the world because that's how you change it from the bigger standpoint rather than acutely trying to change things.
Kenya Barris
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I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.
Donella Meadows
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If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.
Ariel Pink
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Yes, I live a crazy, exciting, whatever life, but I do think it's quite relatable because it has to be - I'm just a girl from St Louis, Missouri that has lived life like anyone else. There are things that are crazy and over the top, but the basic thread is my family, my career, trying to live and pursuing my dreams.
Kimora Lee Simmons
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The point I'm trying to make is, I'm really quite neutral. I have not been conditioned.
John Lone
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As an artist, one doesn't know what is real. And so there's a search and a process of trying to locate something that feels or appears or somehow resonates with us on a deeper level. This is why art is such an interesting business to be in.
Chris Martin
Coldplay
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And so about many other things of the same nature, we are trying to make people believe these things, and we make creeds of them; and thus we continue to do our own will, which is the ground of all sin.
Elias Hicks
