Trying Quotes

• I actually started singing in church when I was about five years old. I remember looking at the choirs and just hearing all of those great big beautiful voices. And there was this one woman who could just wail. And I remember trying to sing like her when I was like going home.

  

  Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child
  • Great
  • Home
  • Remember

• What gets yme excited about a project and character is the director, the script, who's involved in the movie, and the character. Those are pretty much the essentials. If it's something different, if it scares me, in a way, if it will stretch me or push me into certain places that I haven't been to, then I like that. If you're just trying to talk yourself into it, then it's probably not for you. It's hard to be selective.

  

  Sebastian Stan
  • Different
  • Character
  • Excited

• A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother?

  

  Christian Bale
  • People
  • Why
  • Movie

• The FDA and much, but not all, of the orthodox medical profession are actively hostile against vitamins and minerals... They are out to get the health food industry...And they are trying to do this out of active hostility and prejudice.

  

  William Proxmire
  • Age
  • Dark
  • Prejudice

• I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.

  

  Ernest Gaines
  • Writing
  • Interest
  • Pages

• As runners, we all go through many transitions-- transitions that closely mimic the larger changes we experience in a lifetime. First, we try to run faster. Then we try to run harder. Then we learn to accept ourselves and our limitations, and at last, we can appreciate the true joy and meaning of running.

  

  Amby Burfoot
  • Running
  • Joy
  • Appreciate

• I'm trying to think of all the reasons that are appropriate for me to refuse to answer that question.

  

  John Ashcroft
  • Trying
  • Question

• If somebody's gonna smoke a joint in their house and not do anybody else any harm, then perhaps there are other things that our cops should be looking at to engage in and try to clean up some of the other problems that we have in society.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Country
  • House
  • Problem

• If what we're really trying to do is stop the spread of HIV, we need to think about the customer.

  

  Amy Lockwood
  • Trying
  • Customers
  • Spread

• The frustration mainly comes from trying to understand what they really want. Also, you cannot understand how can such a large nation maintain its so-called stability by doing something very unlawful. I mean, how can they possibly manage to stabilize the whole social condition by not acting with justice and fairness.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Trying
  • Justice
  • Frustration

• The more you try to erase me The more, the more The more that I appear

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Trying
  • Erase

• It would be fantastic to spend your whole life trying to pursue something and then finally, at the last moment, you achieve it. You know, instead of getting it in the middle of the pursuit and spending the second half giving it meaning.

  

  Ashton Eaton
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Giving

• It's remarkable she Venus Williams plays at all, given her Sjögren's syndrome [an autoimmune disorder that can cause joint pain]. She's back, winning tournaments. She didn't allow society to tell her, "You have this disease; you can't do that anymore." I look at her, like, "She's not playing at 100 percent. You are. You don't have excuses." Knowing what she went through helped me try to be a more positive person.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Pain
  • Winning
  • Causes

• Look beyond the paint. Let us try to open our minds to a new idea.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Mind
  • Ideas
  • Looks

• I can't really do anything about the past and all I can do is just embrace the future and try to make the most of the present. So I'm really trying to do that and doing my best every day.

  

  Zach Sudfeld
  • Future
  • Past
  • Present

• Dealing with business and trying to create never mixes for me.

  

  Justin Scott
  • Trying
  • Business

• There's feelings there, but I think I've just been pretty good at trying to hide my emotions throughout the years. I try to have the same demeanor each and every day.

  

  Derek Jeter
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• If a person is a U.S. citizen, and he is on the battlefield in Afghanistan or Iraq trying to attack our troops, he will face the full brunt of the U.S. military response.

  

  John O. Brennan
  • Trying
  • Military

• We are trying not so much to make God listen to us as to make ourselves listen to him; we are trying not to persuade God to do what we want, but to find out what he wants us to do. It so often happens that in prayer we are really saying, 'Thy will be changed,' when we ought to be saying, 'Thy will be done.' The first object of prayer is not so much to speak to God as to listen to him.

  

  William Barclay
  • Done
  • Prayer
  • Speak

• I'm sorry, but any police department in America that tries to function without some form of 'stop and frisk,' or whatever terminology they use, is doomed to failure. It's that simple.

  

  William Bratton
  • Simple
  • Police
  • Sorry

• I'm not trying to make excuses for David Seaman, but I think the lights may have been a problem.

  

  Kevin Keegan
  • Thinking
  • May
  • Problem

• The same thing I did in 2013 is what I'm trying to do in 2014, which is continue to improve, continue to shock people. You know, I have several projects coming up between 2014 and 2015, and hopefully by 2015, I'll have another hour of stand-up material where I'll be able to go on the road and tour again.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • People
  • Up
  • Road

• As I get older, I'm trying to accept improvisation into my day-to-day living.

  

  Colin Mochrie
  • Trying

• We haven't really changed, we've just gotten better at executing what we've always been trying to do. We're not really a band that has undergone huge stylistic decisions to change, we're just trying to follow the song. More and more, we let the song lead us - we don't try and put the song into a structure of our taste or our fashion.

  

  Torquil Campbell Broken Social Scene
  • Song
  • Fashion
  • Decision

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