Trying Quotes - Page 39

• I wouldn't trust a man who wouldn't try to steal a little.

  Al Swearengen

  Men, Littles, Stealing

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• As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality.

  Grimes

  Challenges, Quality, Nails

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• I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.

  Park Geun-hye

  Perception, Asia, East

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• The only true failure is failure to try.

  Wes Fesler

  Effort

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• Now I usually try not to give advice. Information, yes, advice, no. But, what has worked for me may not work for you. Well, take for instance what has worked for me. Wigs. Tight clothes. Push up bras.

  Dolly Parton

  Clothes, Funny Graduation, Giving

  "Puff Daddy Delivers Howard University Commencement Speech, But How Does It Rank?" by Emma Goddard, www.bustle.com. May 11, 2014.

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• So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.

  Elijah Wood

  Time, Being Different, Different

  "Hobbit forming" by Tom Roston, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2001.

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• The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them.

  Phillip Noyce

  Children, Kids, Unique

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• I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write, but it's not that easy. Acting is what's easy.

  David Niven

  School, Writing, Years

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

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• I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Addiction, Subculture, Addict

  "Talk time: Jonathan Lethem". Interview with Hamish Mackintosh, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2004.

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• I mean, I try to say the right things and give the right advice. But still, I'm only a person.

  Jonathan Brandis

  Mean, Giving, Advice

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• Don't be constantly selling and shilling. Figure out how you can help others, tell them stories, and share openly everything you know so that people will recognize you as someone that they can trust, who won't turn them off by constantly trying to sell them something.

  C.C. Chapman

  Book, Helping Others, People

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• You can sell a lot more books if you work with other authors than if you try to do everything all by yourself.

  John Kremer

  Book, Marketing, Ifs

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• And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place.

  Karen Hughes

  Party, Texas, Agreement

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• I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.

  Mike Figgis

  Apology, People, Hearing

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• I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit.

  Emanuel Ax

  Movement, Applause, Culprit

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• It's that I'm 39. I feel hot and sexy, actually... I feel it inside myself. I don't feel dried up and tired and no longer interested in sex is what I'm trying to say.

  Kyra Sedgwick

  Sexy, Tired, Hot

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• I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself.

  Ike Turner

  Confidence, Tired, Fighting

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• However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

  Julian Clary

  Loss, Light, Youth

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• I try so hard to live in the moment - I don't think ahead very much.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Thinking, Live In The Moment, Moments

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• 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

  Hate, Heart, People

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• These are the days that try man's heart.

  Thomas Paine

  Heart, Men, Hardship

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• Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds

  Rajneesh

  God, Letting Go, Flower

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• Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I used to do just doesn't fit. Everything seems to just fall apart. I don't know why but I think it is because I am this new creature.

  Ben Vereen

  Fall, Thinking, Years

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• Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one's corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.

  Tom Peters

  Loyalty, Corporations, Forget

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Tom Peters Seminar: Crazy Times Call for Crazy Organizations”, p.91, Vintage

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• Everyday that goes by I try to improve myself and searching for something that may even be impossible; perfection.

  Anderson Silva

  Art, Perfection, Everyday

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