Trying Quotes - Page 25

• To play one of the main characters in it, it's not the kind of thing you don't do. Oh, I'd rather not play Pippin in Lord of the Rings... In fact, I'm trying to think - what else would you rather do, you know? I can't actually think of another job that I'd rather do.

  Billy Boyd

  Jobs, Character, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.

  Craig Charles

  Arms, Dustbin, Length

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• If business doesn't thrive, it hurts America. We need improved relations, more collaboration, more thought and more consistency as we go about trying to make sure we have the best country in the world. Not scapegoating and finger-pointing.

  Jamie Dimon

  Country, Hurt, America

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• Praying can make a difference, and it is up to all of us to try that, with faith, and see if it will not support these admirable troops, their spouses, and their families.

  Michael Enzi

  Differences, Support, Making A Difference

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• I became almost immediately fascinated by the possibilities of trying out all conceivable reactions with them, some leading to explosions, others to unbearable poisoning of the air in our house, frightening my parents.

  Richard Ernst

  Air, House, Parent

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• In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

  Pras Michel

  Artist, Grows, Feels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm confident being at Universal, which is a great home for me, 'cause they understand what I'm trying to do.

  Pras Michel

  Home, Causes, Universal

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Dancing was my sport when I was younger. So I chose that over everything. And then, I just had to keep going because it became a competitive thing. But I'm not trying to impress anyone anymore. Dancing is more like my art, now.

  Heather Morris

  Sports, Art, Dancing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Even now I can't stand being recognized in the street. I just hate it when strangers come up and try to talk to me. I'm pathologically shy.

  Jimmy Nail

  Hate, Shy, Stranger

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• I’m trying to manage myself, not just my portfolio.

  Guy Spier

  Portfolios, Manage

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• Computer programmers tend, by and large, to be quirky and highly individualistic. Trying to organize or manage such awkward characters is normally as thankless as herding cats

  John Naughton

  Character, Cat, Awkward

  John Naughton (2015). “A Brief History of the Future”, p.209, Hachette UK

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• I don’t waste time. I move. I finish things. I don’t try and do things to the nth degree. I know what’s important and what’s not. I’ve really learned that. That’s a judgement I’ve learned, what really matters.

  Gail Kelly

  Moving, Judgement, Important

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• It's not always that easy to distinguish the good guys from the bad guys. Sinners can surprise you. And the same is true for saints.Why do we try to define people as simply good or simply evil? Because no one wants to admit that compassion and cruelty can live side by side in one heart. And that anyone is capable of anything.

  Mary Alice

  Heart, Compassion, People

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• When the truth is ugly, people try to keep it hidden, because they know if revealed, the damage it will do. So they conceal it within sturdy walls or they place it behind closed doors or they obscure it with clever disguises but truth, no matter how ugly, always emerges. And someone we care about always ends up getting hurt. And someone else will revel in their pain and that's the ugliest truth of all.

  Mary Alice

  Hurt, Wall, Clever

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• My work comes from the experience of crowds, injustice, and aggression… I feel an affinity for art when it was made a form of existence, like when shamans worked in the territory between men and unknown powers… I try to bewitch the crowd.

  Magdalena Abakanowicz

  Art, Men, Crowds

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• I hate Sunday, and I don't think I'll ever get over it. But I'm going to try.

  Frank D. Gilroy

  Hate, Sunday, Thinking

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• The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity to which others are trying to prove him wrong.

  Harry Segall

  Individual, Intensity, Increase

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• The measure of self-assurance is how deeply and sincerely interested you are in others; the measure of insecurity is how much you try to impress them with you.

  Mark Goulston

  Self, Insecurity, Impress

  Mark Goulston (2015). “Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone”, p.63, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Moving, Thinking, Circles

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• Modern art must strike out from the old. The new is not revealed to those whose eyes are fastened in worship upon the old…Have you ever seen an inch worm crawl up a leaf or twig, and then clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something to reach? That's like me. I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have a footing.

  Albert Pinkham Ryder

  Art, Eye, Air

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• Religion and race belong together. German man can only assimilate religious faith and religious thought with a German mind and in a German way. We must not think we can come to God except through our Volk....Wherever our blood rises in protest we act immorally, even though others may try to prove it to be moral.

  Hans Schemm

  Religious, Men, Thinking

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• I try to transform a dream's magic into reality.

  Alberta Ferretti

  Dream, Reality, Magic

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• French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels. It requires the utmost subtlety.

  Alma Gluck

  Vowels, Way, Difficult

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• The doll had an adult shaped body, the thing that I had been trying to describe for years, and our guys said it couldn't be done.

  Ruth Handler

  Years, Guy, Adults

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• There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.

  Lara St. John

  Play, Voice, Want

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