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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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- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying to move a little more toward literary fiction while still retaining a popular feel.
- Oil
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't make records that way, where I'm trying to please the marketplace or anything. Not because I have anything against that, it's just never been a part of my aesthetic, even when I was with the Pixies.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
- Destruction
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- Nov 07, 2020
We went into Iraq because Iraq posed a threat to the stability of the region and was engaged in the process of trying to develop weapons of mass destruction and had links to terrorists.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Say Her Name' was a book I never wanted to write and never expected to write. I wasn't trying to do anything except write a book for Aura - a book that I thought I had to write.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no reason trying to fit in: Just be you. That was the biggest thing for me, just being me, and finding what works for me.
- Humble
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying to... stay humble and keep doing what I do.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no person I aspire to be. I'm just doing my own thing and seeing what happens - not looking to something and trying to be that.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
In high school, I was that guy who was trying to be cool with everybody, but I never really had a core group of friends.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're all trying so hard to be beautiful, but the people in 'Kuso' are trying so hard to be disgusting.
- Cry
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- Nov 07, 2020