Trying Quotes - Page 34

• My father taught me respect for quality as well as a sense of dignity - great values as we face a world going in a different direction. I try to teach my children to stay close to the real things.

  Diego Della Valle

  Children, Father, Real

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• It's not like suddenly, when you become a working actor all your friends are in the same situation. I have friends who are still handing out flyers for their one-woman show and trying to make ends meet.

  Nia Vardalos

  Actors, Ends, Flyers

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

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• Every year I try to keep in excellent shape and improve some part of my game. I play in the offseason overseas to keep my game tuned up and hopefully improve a little in some area.

  Sue Wicks

  Games, Play, Years

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• The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.

  Philip Wylie

  Liberty, Quality, Businessman

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• For why are we here if not to try to fathom one another? Not through facts alone, but with the full extent of our imaginations. And what are stories if not tools for imagining?

  Leah Hager Cohen

  Imagination, Tools, Stories

  Leah Hager Cohen (2014). “No Book but the World: A Novel”, p.180, Penguin

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• It wasn't about me trying to lose weight. It was all about emotions.

  Candace Cameron

  Weight, Emotion, Loses

  "Candace Cameron Bure Opens Up About Her Struggle With Bulimia" by Terri Schwartz, www.mtv.com. December 29, 2010.

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• I think it is every woman's duty to make herself as attractive as her time and means permit. After all, there you are, in your person- a living symbol of the progress of art, science and imagination. To be as attractive as we can be is almost a civic duty; there are so many sad and ugly things in the world that I think women should say to themselves humbly, not with vanity, 'I will try to be as pretty as I can, so that when people look at me, they will feel refreshed. I will make an effort to be easy on the eye.'

  Ilka Chase

  Art, Mean, Eye

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• But I also like to be in control, like anyone else. I try to achieve a balance.

  Trevor Dunn

  Balance, Achieve

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• My aim was to create armaments to protect the borders of my motherland. It is not my fault that the Kalashnikov became very well-known in the world; that it was used in many troubled places. I think the policies of these countries are to blame, not the designers. Man is born to protect his family, his children, his wife. But I want you to know that apart from armaments, I have written three books in which I try to educate our youth to show respect for their families, for old people, for history.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Country, Children, Book

  "For Patriotism and Profit". Interview with Robert Fisk, www.worldpress.org. July 2001.

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• I was trying to perform as best as possible. I was a boy at the time, but worked well with the sickle.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Boys, Wells

  "Mikhail Kalashnikov: 'I sleep soundly'" by Nick Paton Walsh, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2003.

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• Let me just try to give you sort of the intuitive one here on the stimulus funds. If you have a two-person economy - let's imagine we have two farms, and that's the whole world, just two farms. If one of those farmers gets unemployment benefits, who do you think pays for him? Am I going way over your heads today?

  Arthur Laffer

  Thinking, Two, Giving

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• Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Helping Others, Inspire, Weakness

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1890). “Ordination Addresses and Counsels to Clergy”

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• You should never bother trying to remember where you put something. You should just imagine needing to put it somewhere now, then go to the place you pick. Because why would you pick a different location now than you did earlier? Your personality is more stable than that. It's not like we wake up each day as different people. It's just that we don't trust ourselves.

  Josh Bazell

  People, Personality, Different

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• The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.

  Abraham Flexner

  Real, Men, Wings

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• Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch those ripples. No one’s hands are fast enough.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Ocean, Mean, Hands

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• To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

  Eduardo Chillida

  Looks, Difficult, One Thing

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• Innovation almost always is not successful the first time out. You try something and it doesn't work and it takes confidence to say we haven't failed yet. Ultimately you become commercially successful.

  Clayton Christensen

  Successful, Innovation, Firsts

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• The more I learn and read about the 10th Muse i realize what a great fan base and cult following she has. I'm going to try to live up to the fantastic image of the 10th Muse!

  Cindy Margolis

  Fans, Realizing, Muse

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• People are supposed to accumulate, I thought, as they get older, but I seem to be sloughing off, like a person wrapped in a hundred layers of cellophane, tearing one layer off at a time, trying to get down to me.

  Pam Houston

  People, Layers, Hundred

  Pam Houston (1999). “Waltzing the Cat”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• The Bible is still the only dirty book I've ever read, at least in its current incarnation as a weapon of the homophobes. Bible scholarship keeps trying to catch up, proving that all the hatred of gay is just stupid translation, though the snake-oil preachers don't want to hear it.

  Paul Monette

  Stupid, Dirty, Book

  Paul Monette (2017). “Reflections: The World of Paul Monette”, p.33, Open Road Media

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• In searching for a way out of my own troubles, I had found my way into the troubles of others, some long gone, and now I was trying to find my way back out, through their troubles, as if we human beings can ever learn from one another.

  Jesse Ball

  Long, Way, Gone

  FaceBook post by Jesse Ball from Sep 01, 2014

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• I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does exist, and then to see what it is.

  Jesse Ball

  Believe, Doe, Discovering

  Jesse Ball (2014). “Silence Once Begun: A Novel”, p.183, Vintage

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• Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.

  Lance Secretan

  Inspiration, Fall, Essence

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• I purposely try to hire people who are really self-motivated and good at what they do, and then I just leave them alone.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Self, People, Motivated

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• The solution may be for a lot of the world's problems is to turn around and take a forward step. You can't just keep trying to make a flawed system work.

  Yvon Chouinard

  World, May, Steps

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