Attempting Quotes - Page 17

• It is critical to have a sound understanding of traditional culinary principles before attempting to push boundaries in cuisine. Larousse Gastronomique helps me execute the progressive cooking we do at Alinea.

  Grant Achatz

  Understanding, Cooking, Sound

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• The only thing tougher than developing leadership skills is attempting to be successful without them.

  Orrin Woodward

  Successful, Skills, Developing

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• Why does merely attempting to understand Reality so often seem to lead to going insane?

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Reality, Insane, Doe

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• Regarding local residents attempting to ban sex shops from their neighborhoods: You show me a parent who says he's worried about his child's innocence and I'll show you a homeowner trying to maintain equity.

  George Carlin

  Sex, Children, Parent

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• I have been attempting to meditate more. Golf is my state of peace, though. The tranquility of a golf course, all of the trees, the oxygen. It puts me right at ease.

  Mpho Koaho

  Golf, Oxygen, Tree

  "Actor Mpho Koaho: The vulnerable nature of acting, investing in youth programs". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Creativity is a powerful force for anyone attempting to heal themselves.

  Frazey Ford

  Powerful, Creativity, Force

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• I would feel pretty embarrassed if I was doing what I do and I wasn't at least attempting the eloquent translation of the human experience in some way.

  El-P

  Way, Embarrassed, Human Experience

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I remember the review from Michael Wilmington in Chicago, and Gene Siskel wrote really smart reviews where I thought, "Oh, they totally get what we're attempting to do."

  Judd Apatow

  Smart, Chicago, Remember

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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• A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.

  B. F. Skinner

  Disappointment, Errors, Might

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• I don't have a clue about the way to achievement, however the way to disappointment is attempting to please everyone.

  Bill Cosby

  Disappointment, Achievement, Way

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• I met Jon Lovett, who was just coming off of three years of being a presidential speech writer and had just arrived here to be a comedy writer in Hollywood. I thought he was super green, in terms of this world, but he knows so much about the world that we're attempting to write about.

  Josh Gad

  Writing, Years, Presidential

  Source: collider.com

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• But in the act of attempting to imitate I discovered that I had a voice of my own. Whether I liked it or not was another matter. I found that I was my best or that I pleased myself most or came closest to my goals when I was tapped into something autobiographical.

  Guy Maddin

  Voice, Goal, Matter

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative.

  Sydney Pollack

  Views, World, Conservative

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• That's sort of the idea that if we, in attempting to explain away that which is experienced, the experience itself is diminished.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Ideas, Ifs

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.

  Ben Stein

  Should

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• We are attempting, by this Constitution, to abolish factions, and to unite all parties for the general welfare.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Party, Constitution, Welfare

  Alexander Hamilton (1962). “Papers”

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• I think we're in a global crisis of unprecedented scale, with global warming and climate change, and we don't have the solution using any of the separated structures that are attempting to solve these issues, whether it be the United Nations, or the global corporations.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Thinking, Issues, Climate

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• When I am confronted with emotional pain, I try to allow myself the time to properly grieve. We are caring, emotional beings, and attempting to suppress pain will only cause it to negatively manifest itself in other ways.

  Amanda Schull

  Pain, Caring, Emotional

  "Amanda Schull Suits and 12 Monkeys actor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative. I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films. It's a way for me to understand what it's like to be a murderer, to confess, to be a beaten wife, to be a minority, to be a victor, to get the girl, to lose the girl. I can do all of that through the practice of an art form.

  Sydney Pollack

  Girl, Art, Children

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• If your wife briefly corrects someone with "Actually, I'm bisexual" during conversation, it hardly sounds like attempting to remain an object of desire to me. If she went around saying, "Actually, I'm still very interested in men, particularly you, you massive dose of sexual charisma," you might have a case.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Bisexual, Men, Wife

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Schleiermacher, however, starts by attempting to find what he takes to be a basic element of the human condition as such, namely, that we did not invent ourselves but find ourselves born into a life and a world that precedes us in manifold ways.

  George Pattison

  Elements, World, Way

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Imagine you are trying to lose weight and attempting to concentrate on writing an article, but there is a bowl with your favorite chocolate cookies in your field of vision, a permanent immoral offer. If we are capable of rejecting such offers or to postpone them into the future, then we can also concentrate on that which we currently want to do.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Writing, Chocolate, Vision

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I'm interested in - in that his power, if that is the word, is such that he has actually been able to be in a way a one-man wrecking crew in the area of deportment and how one proceeds politically on the stump. Marco Rubio is - is attempting, as you know, to a - to give [Donald] Trump a fight in Trump's own style. I'm not sure how that works, but - but certainly the indices are good.

  Bernie Sanders

  Fighting, Men, Giving

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• So when we're told to "move on" or "let go," we should take a look at who is saying it and why, and when we see repetition happening it's worth trying to understand it before attempting to shut it down.

  Laura Mullen

  Letting Go, Moving, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We just totally have abandoned reality here, and the Democrats have created a new reality that is not real whatsoever that people have bought into and accepted, to the point now where the upholding of current law is what's considered lawless and partisan and political, and [Barak] Obama attempting to skirt the law and ignore the law is what people think is the law!

  Rush Limbaugh

  Real, Thinking, Law

  FaceBook post by Rush Limbaugh from Jun 23, 2016

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