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As Henry Moore carvedor modelled his sculpture every day,he strove to surpass Donatello4. and failed...

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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underes...

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Trying to meet new women, it's always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew ...

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I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

There are so many things to think about when you make an album. Like, who am I trying to impress? Am...

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What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space f...

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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famo...

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Technology breeds crime and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of...

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We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one ...

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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But a...

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A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that n...

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I intend to live forever, or die trying.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been in...

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You, yourself, will never rest until you've tried!

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibi...

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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep lookin...

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I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.

Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jaz...

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I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualit...

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I feel an obligation to set the record straight. Actors that say they're affected by something, that...

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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else ...

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There is no try. There is only do.

Trying to run Congress without human relationships is like trying to run a car without motor oil. Sh...

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There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

We young Filipinos are trying to make over a nation and must not halt in our march, but from time to...

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We're trying to set up a movie for me in the near future. It's going to be similar to the story of h...

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Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was ex...

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Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian on...

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If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You'...

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A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserve...

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I love healthy stuff and junk an equal amount. Whatever I'm craving, I go for it. I'm never trying t...

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There are so many people that would be lined up to get their cut that even trying to finance a reboo...

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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded U...

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What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning-...

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Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happe...

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When people keep telling you that you can’t do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It's always on. There is always someone tr...

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The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more eff...

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If I hadn't had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would ...

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If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like withou...

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Stephen Hawking's been watching too many Hollywood movies. I think the only kind aliens in Hollywood...

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I understand women" ... There's no man alive who can honestly say those words and mean them. It just...

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It's not a case of the glass being half full or half empty; more that we tipped a whole half-pint in...

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As far as U.S. intelligence knows, Iran is developing nuclear capacities, but they don't know if the...

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The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and re...

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It is pretty ironic that the so-called 'least advanced' people are the ones taking the lead in tryin...

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I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. ...

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I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who...

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I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding th...

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Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And...

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I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtr...

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The best scientists can do is fail to disprove things while pointing to how hard they tried

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Richard DawkinsThe Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.

Stop trying, & start trusting.

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.

All I was doing was trying to get home from work.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

I wanted to get really fit. I wanted to lose some weight. So I've been doing Pilates and yoga, tryin...

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I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in...

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A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

I've never argued that humans are massively hot-wired. What I was trying to point out was that you c...

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People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to gi...

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My future's about trying to be a better man.

All that really matters is I have two beautiful kids, and I'm trying to be the best dad I can possib...

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Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that t...

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I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I c...

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I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to ...

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I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I...

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I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but...

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For much of the year, you're just trying to maintain your fitness. It's not often you get a lot of t...

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If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The...

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We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be exce...

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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with you...

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I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

I just love cars I've been like that since I was a kid. It's an infatuation because we grew up poor....

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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in li...

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I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.

All of us gave it all we've got, overcame a whole lot just being on the show and learned a lot about...

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The dead do not needaspirin orsorrow,I suppose.but they might needrain.not shoesbut a place towalk.n...

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Charles BukowskiThe Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems

I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconven...

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I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with peopl...

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Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing wh...

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You can't stop everything from happening. But we've gotten to a point where we're certainly trying. ...

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two...

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I consider Yoda to be just about the most evil character that I’ve ever seen in the history of liter...

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