- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trying Quotes
Sometimes the effort matters more than the outcome.
This collection finds humor and sincerity in the act of trying - baseball becoming enjoyable again only after quitting the attempt to play it, and a small reading ritual used to get through a demanding project. Related reading in I Am Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.
- Gingrich
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- Nov 07, 2020
Speaker Newt Gingrich has appointed a task force, which I'm on, and over the next couple months the task force is going to try to come up with legislation that does what we're all trying to do. I feel pretty good about the members that are on the task force.
- Battle
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the '90s, there was always this continuous pitting of women against each other in the media, trying to make them battle it out.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so easy to become obsessed with the film industry and recognition that we can forget that we are not saving the world. We are just actors trying to entertain people.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you.
- Favors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Far from trying to rig the system, I have spent decades opposing cronyism and all political favors, including mandates, subsidies and protective tariffs - even when we benefit from them.
- Mad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ronald Reagan was so self-contained and impenetrable that his official biographer was practically driven mad trying to figure him out.
- Nov 07, 2020
Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention.
- Healthy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When most individuals or most companies are talking about trying to create healthy habits, the key is to identify which habit or habits seem most important.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Medicare's top officials said in 2006 that they had reduced the number of fraudulent and improper claims paid by the agency, keeping billions of dollars out of the hands of people trying to game the system.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020