- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Attempting Quotes
Words for every leap of effort.
This set gathers lines about the act of trying itself, whether it is chasing an economic forecast, holding a shaky budget together, or simply picking a direction and sticking to it. For more on staying the course, see Always quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you've sort of signaled that everything is on the table.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not even really attempting to brand myself outside of 'Humans of New York.' I think part of the reason for my success is that I've put my ego aside and said I'm not going to put all of my effort into trying to promote myself. I'm going to try to promote my work and am going to try to promote my project.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oakland has always had artists attempting to define the immense beauty and ridiculousness around them.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Othello is someone who's just had a victory, and it's the aftermath of coming back and attempting to live comfortably as a civilian.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we continue to work to pass comprehensive immigration reform, we must take action to stop these predators who are exploiting immigrants attempting to play by the rules.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see myself as attempting to break ground. I definitely am trying to create my own genre here... I'm attempting to tell stories in a very new and entertaining way.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I had never written anything longer than a couple of pages till then and was foolishly attempting to write a hundred-thousand words.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
- Hiding
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I spent a lot of my mental energy hiding who I was and attempting to fit in.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020