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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
You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
- Hollywood
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- Nov 07, 2020
A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vaccines have played a fundamental role in eradicating terrible illnesses such as polio, diphtheria, and hepatitis. However, they bring a risk associated with side-effects that are usually temporary and surmountable... but, in very rare cases, can be as severe as getting the same disease you're trying to be immune to.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.
- Nov 07, 2020
There are certain things you don't say that's disrespectful. They detract from the point you're trying to make.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do.
- Press
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- Nov 07, 2020
My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.
- Different Places
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a chance to choose a couple different places and, well, I grew up - I was a small-town kid from Illinois, so No. 1, just trying to win a championship for my home state.
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I'm just trying to create a working knowledge of my body. So it knows what to expect.
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I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.
- Enforcing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's this constant narrative of anxieties: Is the U.S. in decline? Is China rising? People forget... no other country is trying to play the role we play. They're not signing up to be responsible for security in the Middle East, responsible for the global economy, responsible for enforcing international norms.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're trying to do something so that when the average person uses Pinterest, it has to make the service better.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can't do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.
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- Nov 07, 2020