Trying Quotes

• Some men say that they should be satisfied with the abolition of untouchability only, leaving the caste system alone. The aim of abolition of untouchability alone without trying to abolish the inequalities inherent in the caste system is a rather low aim.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Men
  • Alone
  • Leaving

• My new play 'Chinglish,' which will go to Broadway, is about a white American businessman who goes to a provincial capital in China, hoping to make a deal there. It's bilingual. And it's about trying to communicate across language and cultural barriers.

  

  David Henry Hwang
  • Trying
  • American

• The other day I got a text from a boy, but it wasn't hot. I mean, if you're going to text me every day, you haven't seen me for months and you're trying to seduce me, you'd better spice up that text and make it more exciting than 'How was your day? I hope you're having a beautiful one.' Sadly, I haven't been doing a lot of kissing lately.

  

  Chloe Sevigny
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Beautiful

• I've been doing a lot of stuff that has to do with charity and giving. I'm trying to give and not take as much.

  

  Mark Indelicato
  • Trying
  • Giving
  • Charity

• I don't understand the concept of always trying to make F1 go slower and slower and slower and have less and less power.

  

  Jacques Villeneuve
  • Trying
  • Power

• Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.

  

  Tana French
  • Up
  • Work
  • Society

• I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Up
  • Live
  • Lost

• Seth Green, he and I are trying to figure out how this all came about. Because we don't remember what came first, the chicken or the egg, no pun intended. But I don't remember what came first, 'Robot Chicken' or our friendship, because we've known each other for so long.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Friendship

• People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Trying
  • Always

• What I saw in the record industry is it's just getting more restricted, more restricted, more restricted to where everyone's trying to figure out what kind of song to make to get on the radio: that's researched and where advertisers are telling you what to play.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • Trying
  • Song

• When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.

  

  Keren Ann
  • Words
  • Inspired
  • Mood

• We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • World
  • Trying
  • Perfect

• I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists from another type of person is perhaps a willingness to go headlong into that uncertainty.

  

  Brandon Boyd Incubus
  • People
  • Trying

• Well, the album 'Intuition' is out and just went platinum officially. So I think to have the music doing what it's doing right now, man, it's the ultimate. Nobody is really selling records out there but we are at a million records and we dropped it at Christmas, so we are just trying to get that thing to like two million, you know.

  

  Jamie Foxx
  • Music
  • Christmas
  • Intuition

• There are poets who believe that you shouldn't engage at all in any cause. And there's something to be said for that. Because you don't want to - I think most political poetry is very bad. And it's very bad because you know too much to start with. You have a sense that you're right, and you're trying to tell other people what's right. And I think that's always kind of fundamentalism, and I don't like it.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • People
  • Believe
  • Bad

• I'm not just trying to be good at one thing and then call it a day. I want to be like Bruno Mars.

  

  Thomas Rhett
  • Good
  • Trying

• I'd like to stand up in those classes and announce to the world that I'm too busy to be Irish or Catholic or anything else, that I'm working day and night to make a living, trying to read books for my courses and falling asleep in the library ....

  

  Frank McCourt
  • Up
  • World
  • Night

• As late as 2007, Facebook was still trying to figure out what it wanted to be when it grew up. An advertising space seemed to be the obvious answer, but how that would tap into the massive value of the personal data uploaded to the company every day remained a puzzle.

  

  Kurt Eichenwald
  • Up
  • Space
  • Value

• I'm not really entertained anymore, everything sounds the same. We have a crisis right now of innovative music. I'm probably the only person left trying to do something different and brand new.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
  • Music
  • Different
  • Crisis

• I was sheltered, and there's good and bad to that. The good was not getting into the drugs and the alcohol and the really sorry stuff, and the bad was finally coming out into the real world and trying to deal with it, which was hard for me.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• I'm trying to bring a little bit of every type of sauce into one type of sound. Something that's really fresh.

  

  Post Malone
  • Trying

• I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • People
  • God
  • Bad

• Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.

  

  Joshua Lederberg
  • Age
  • Successful
  • Capability

• I always have been trying to work on the other side of Jackie, and that is, making sure that my appearance, that my image, is right; also, working in the job world, knowing how it is to wake up and go to a job.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

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