Trying Quotes
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I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.
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There was all this enthusiasm about amateurism and the idea that people could now just make videos in their bedroom, or blog news stories and share it online, and isn't this great? Now we can do it just for the love of it and not try to be professionals, corrupted by careerism.
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You just need to be accepted for who you are and be proud of who you are and that is what I'm trying to do.
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Everyone's taste is different. But I think the best way to defend against regrets after opening night is to try your best to tell the story you want to tell. In terms of smaller changes over time, I think good plays are like poems. Every syllable counts.
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We just keep trying to beat every show with the funny stick until it's funny
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I try as best as I can to have a normal life. People recognise you, of course, and that's very strange. But I sort of leave my working life behind when I go home. That's my other world.
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Do not let anyone discourage you. If they try: get determined, not depressed.
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I've been on a lot of shows that I like, doing guest appearances and little things. I'm just trying to have fun with being retired.
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People will sooner aid a sick dog lying on the sidewalk than to try to find shelter for a sick person. It's too much to deal with.
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We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.
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I am trying to encourage kids to do something that isn’t yet on their mind because it is not in popular culture. Popular culture tells you 'music, music, sports, sports.' It neglects the importance of a STEM education.
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To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can.
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Aspire to be, and all that we are not God will give us credit for trying.
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But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.
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A plant-based diet has actually simplified my life in so many ways. For breakfast, I try to get my first serving of fruits and nuts for fuel. I'm completely addicted to coconut water for the electrolytes and hydration.
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I was prepared to get knocked out myself trying to knock him out, because then I could sleep at night knowing that I've given my best.
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One's ability to enter into thousands of lawsuits as a tool for success, or to use bankruptcy to avoid paying your former employees and vendors, have little relevance when trying to create good government.
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On these matters of specific fact, like is the mushroom an extraterrestrial and that sort of thing, I haven't the faintest idea. The mushroom itself is such a mercurial, elusive, Zen sort of personality that I never believe a word it says. I simply entertain its notions and try and sort through them, and I found that to be the most enriching approach to it.
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I like books that are funny, but that aren't trying to be funny. I like situational humor.
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A belief is only a thought you continue to think. A belief is nothing more than a chronic pattern of thought, and you have the ability - if you try even a little bit - to begin a new pattern, to tell a new story, to achieve a different vibration, to change your point of attraction.
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There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going.
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Children who remember their past lives offer the most compelling evidence yet for reincarnation... when adults listen-really listen-to what the children are trying to say, their own understanding of spirit and of children are changed forever.
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I'm honored that other comedians like what I do. That means the world to me. But at the same time when I'm on stage I'm not just trying to make the comedians laugh - I'm also trying to make the audience laugh. I want to make everybody laugh.
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Nothing is really broke, so it's not like I can fix it. I just have to keep trying to find what I'm looking for.
