Trying Quotes
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There are companies trying to build business within Saudi Arabia, and what they find is that if they try to bring on locals and teach them how to become senior executives, they just don't show up to work. They are not predictable as to when they'll come in and how much of their hearts are into that opportunity.
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I think I would be making a mistake to actively try and just do everything completely different from 'Gilmore Girls.
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With 'Innerspeaker' I was trying to do these hypnotic '60s grooves, but it was so hypnotic and repetitive that they sounded like they were sampled. It was making electronic sampled music but using real instruments to do it.
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'Romeo And Juliet' is the classic love story. When two lovers are separated and trying to get back to one another, that's fiercely romantic and something you become glued to.
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I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that they think belong to successful people.
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Once you start compromising, once you start trying to keep cost lower, this is not luxury. Luxury is wanting the best and using the best materials with which to do that.
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I'm trying to move a little more toward literary fiction while still retaining a popular feel.
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I'm feeling real good and trying to take care of myself and living healthy. As good as I can feel.
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Going through puberty, that Cape Canaveral of the hormones, young girls are in love with the idea of being in love, trying it out for sighs.
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The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.
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Trying to run Congress without human relationships is like trying to run a car without motor oil. Should we be surprised when the whole thing freezes up?
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I'm trying to make the case to voters across the political spectrum that someone who brings a younger perspective - a fresher perspective... can change the culture in Washington more effectively than someone who has run for office 9 or 10 times.
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It's really annoying when you're trying to get to know someone and she doesn't pay attention to you because she's obsessed with her phone.
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People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things.
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My agenda is trying to help people live a better life.
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Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.
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I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.
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Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.
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You're a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don't come trying to teach me, sir. Crabs and crumpets!
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You don't want to disappoint anybody, but you know, you lose your voice by trying to please everyone.
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As individuals, we have to act independently of the politics at hand. I don't feel an added responsibility to do anything more beyond being who I've always been and acting decently. I've always felt people are looking down on us and expecting us to fail. That's enough of a burden, and we automatically try to act with dignity.
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The bike accident caused me to start talking about spiritual truths. This accident - where I faced my own death - compelled me to talk about these truths and try to make a movie about them.
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Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.
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I try to concentrate on quality clothing and accessories that are worth having, and to get my people to take fewer trips by air and stay longer each time they travel. It’s more human, especially if they take time to visit an art gallery while there.
