- Love
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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
- Nov 07, 2020
It is hard to be number one, and it is even harder to stay there because everyone is trying to knock you off the top.
- Fanatical
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was so fanatical about trying to save wildlife... I was unable to accept that we couldn't solve this problem of thousands of years, of wherever humans operated, the environment deteriorated.
- Fair Shake
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.
- Millennials
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- Nov 07, 2020
The increasingly progressive messages in marketing campaigns are clearly a mercenary attempt to entice millennials: they are trying to be 'woke.'
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Rome, I was already trying to help in shaping the game, but the style was a little bit different to what we do at Liverpool.
- Comic Strip
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I'm working on that. I'm giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort of make them age gracefully.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of my albums that I've done, a lot of the songs have been the first take. It's before you mess with it too much - you can take away all the spontaneity and the emotion of something by trying to make it sound perfect.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody wants you to do this thing that you've always been doing forever. That's what they want: they want Martin Scorsese to make the same film two hundred times rather than trying to be something different.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not because I'm trying to be fabulous, but I love those big crazy Jackie O shades.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was trying out for my first Olympics at 16, my family and coaches tried to regulate what I ate. But the stricter they got, the more I rebelled.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very conscious of trying to make something epic out of something small and ordinary.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a question of trying to take down by dictation what's already there. I'm not making something, I'm trying to hear it.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
At Bristol I found it quite difficult to continue trying to balance three things - teaching, research and public engagement, for which television was obviously the most prominent part.
- Princess
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- Nov 07, 2020