- Ever
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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
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Close to the Edge' is the album where we first attempted to do the extra-long-form piece of music, having one song taking up the whole side of a piece of vinyl.
- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people are curious at some level, and they want to alter their current state of being. I mean, that could be from curiosity, that could be from stress, that can be from some other sort of ailments or problem that they are experiencing or could just be from boredom, but humans have always attempted to alter their consciousness.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
While some members of Congress have attempted to stall progress on climate change, their actions amount to little more than political theater. We will not abandon our responsibility to our children and grandchildren, nor will we cede global leadership on the defining issue of our time.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every major federal campaign-finance-reform effort since 1943 has attempted to treat corporations and unions equally. If a limit applied to corporations, it applied to unions; if unions could form PACs, corporations could too; and so on. DISCLOSE is the first major campaign-finance bill that has not taken this approach.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoyed needling the press. If I didn't enjoy it, I wouldn't have done it. Writers have rarely played, so as a coach, you have antagonistic feelings about some guy writing up the story of the game who's never even attempted to play it.
- Failed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many good journalists have attempted to confront Trump about his many lies and failures, and have failed.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stealing someone's signals was a part of the game and everybody attempted to do that. We had people that always tried to steal signals.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government of Republican Spain.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never necessarily conscious of my failures when I attempted something and it didn't work out, because I feel like I'm so in tune with my purpose I never necessarily acknowledge that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the blues is the best literature that we as blacks have created since we've been here. I call it our 'sacred book.' What I've attempted to do is to mine that field, to mine those cultural ideas and attitudes and give them to my characters.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until the courts put a stop to it, public debate over same-sex marriage displayed American democracy at its best. Individuals on both sides of the issue passionately, but respectfully, attempted to persuade their fellow citizens to accept their views.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
For millennia, men have enslaved women and attempted to appropriate female creative power, re-casting themselves as gods and creators. This assault continues today in the forms of ruthless wealth and mineral extraction, genetic engineering, mass surveillance, and war mongering.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you persist in your purpose of secession, there will be war - a bloody and cruel war. Not only will the North fight, but she will also triumph. The experiment of secession will fail, and the South, in ruin and desolation, will bitterly repent the day when she attempted to overthrow a wise and beneficent government.
- Encouragement
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- Nov 07, 2020