- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Attempted Quotes
On the risk, and the honesty, of simply trying.
This collection of attempted quotes ranges from a frontier warning about advancing too soon into danger to a sharper truth about public life: an attempted cover-up often causes more damage than the original mistake. It connects to our Believe collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Gaining
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- Nov 07, 2020
I gained a first class degree in Physics at Imperial College London in 1968 and did research in solid state physics, but did not pursue meteorology matters until gaining an M.Sc. in astrophysics from Queen Mary College London in 1981, after which I investigated and attempted to construct theories of solar activity.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Michael Brown was a criminal who had robbed a convenience store and then attempted to kill Police Officer Darren Wilson. Michael Brown never raised his hands above his head and never tried to surrender. He was killed in self-defense by Officer Wilson after Brown first attempted to take the officer's weapon away and then charged at him.
- Beautiful Girls
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a cheerleader, like my sister was - all the most popular and beautiful girls are cheerleaders and I wanted that, and it demolished this vision of myself. That's when I found the piano, when music saved me; that's when I first attempted to write my own songs.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental 'superlaws,' but the superlaws themselves must still be accepted as brute facts. So maybe the ultimate laws of nature will always be off-limits to science.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can reveal today that the U.S. government has information to indicate that individuals tied to terrorist groups in Syria have already attempted to gain access to our country through the U.S. refugee program.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the millions of Americans who've attempted to use HealthCare.gov to shop and enroll in health-care coverage, I want to apologize to you that the Web site has not worked as well as it should. We know how desperately you need affordable coverage.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Srimanthudu' was very important for me and my career at that time, so I was tensed. But for 'Brahmotsavam,' honestly speaking, I am more excited because of its content. I have attempted something new, and I am keen to see how the audience receives it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I've watched and been around so many people that are of a high celebrity grade that I've attempted to soak in every kind of way to deal with fame.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I realize I was writing for others, so that they'd applaud me, see my genius, tell me how wonderful I am, or be jealous of my success.
- Portrait
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- Nov 07, 2020