Trying Quotes
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I'm not trying to twist people's heads around. I'm not trying to say, "Believe in me."
Ozzy Osbourne
Black Sabbath
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They teach you how to resist the enemy, how to protect your mind and spirit. They don’t teach you how to resist your own people, especially people who think they’re trying to 'help' you see 'the truth.'
Max Brooks
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I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.
Judy Holliday
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Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa.
Edward James Olmos
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I feel more at home knowing I'm not really at home. It takes all the pressure off you trying to fit in!
John Oliver
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Listening is a rare happening among human beings. You cannot listen to the word another is speaking if you are preoccupied with your appearance, or with impressing the other, or are trying to decide what you are going to say when the other stops talking, or are debating about whether what is being said is true or relevant or agreeable.
Such matters have their place, but only after listening to the word as the word is being uttered.
Listening is a primitive act of love in which a person gives himself to another’s word, making himself accessible and vulnerable to that word.
William Stringfellow
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As a consumer of culture, I like a wide range of emotions to be touched in art. It's funny but on the other side of it, I do feel that people that are trying to sell culture would like to see a narrower range of expression from their content-makers. Easier to sell I guess.
Erin McKeown
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It's been in the back of my head for five or six years, but more on the local level to get involved and try to create a better environment for my children and grandchildren.
Jon Runyan
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But in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean away, leaving only a wristwatch or a diary page. So no matter that I have inhibitions to fill all my pockets, I keep trying, hoping that one day I'll write a poem I can be proud to let sit in a museum exhibit as the only proof I existed.
Sarah Kay
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I think the fan access is complicated, because it brings wonderful things into my life, and it brings really negative things into my life. I just try to keep the negative stuff at arm's length. Laugh at it and walk away.
Kathleen Hanna
Bikini Kill
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I was the worst extra, I was 'that' guy. I was the guy on the phone trying to get the Oscar for best extra - for best background performance.
Jon Favreau
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I am not just a liberal movement. I come from the progressive Left. I am trying to refresh and counter the system.
Emmanuel Macron
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Kids are without a doubt the most suspicious diners in the world. They will eat mud (raw or baked) rocks, paste, crayons, ball-point pens, moving goldfish, cigarette butts, and cat food. Try to coax a little beef stew into their mouths and they look at you like a puppy when you stand over him with the Sunday paper rolled up.
Erma Bombeck
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When you see a struggle that you may be having personally put on a big screen and in a roomful of people, then it makes you feel less crazy or alone, because you're seeing that other people are dealing with it too. You get to see in this imaginary scenario how people might try and answer some questions or deal with some problems.
Michael Shannon
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I was trying to think of a word that was not offensive. Yeah, Harry Elfont is right - it is kind of a different MTV for sure.
Deborah Kaplan
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When trying to teach someone a boundary, they learn less from the enforcement of the boundary and more from the way the boundary was established.
Bryant H. McGill
