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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Beatles were great; we know that. But we were trying to do a new thing. Why do we need to recreate the Sixties?
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had a lot of difficulty in getting the French to accept the pyramid. They thought we were trying to import a piece of Egypt until I pointed out that their obelisk was also from Egypt and the Place des Pyramides is around the corner. Then they accepted it. The pyramid at the Louvre, though, is just the tip.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tottenham is not a club that always wins, but we are trying to create something. It's not easy to fight against European monsters, but it is a motivation.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As human beings, we can relate to our dark aspects and trying to overcome our dark aspects as Xena did.
- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to change people's minds.
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- Nov 07, 2020