Trying Quotes - Page 13

• Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.

  Bob Feller

  Morning, Roosters, Sunbeams

  "Bob Feller, Whose Fastball Dazzled, Dies at 92" by Richard Goldstein, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 2010.

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• We believe in the art of war. We are trying to get our competition to attack us with angry, virulent energy, so we can transform that into larger market share.

  Marc Benioff

  Art, War, Believe

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• Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes.

  David Chalmers

  Thinking, Views, People

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• We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.

  Pat Travers

  Years, Battle, Albums

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• The selection rules are the same for everybody. I am trying to make a comeback just like some other players who got dropped after the Pakistan tour. I hope my time will come.

  Sourav Ganguly

  Player, Pakistan, Comeback

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• Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent. It's all about the individual songs.

  Tracy Chapman

  Song, Connections, Records

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• Innovating Women is more important today than ever. Things are changing for the better. The recent announcements by Google, LinkedIn, Yahoo, and Facebook of their diversity numbers—and a pledge to improve these—are the most recent victories. The Boys Club is under fire and is trying to reform itself. Women are achieving success and helping each other. Advancing technologies are leveling the playing field. Women are in the catbird seat for the new era of exponential innovation. This is the time to inspire and motivate—and that is what Innovating Women will surely do.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Boys, Technology, Fire

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• A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with a thousand words.

  Rachel

  Simple, Spiritual Love, Brighten Your Day

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• Most of the artists were trying to make a living, trying to get laid, trying to figure out who they were. They weren't trying to change the world. That's what other people put on them. I knew all those people. I knew them all, intimately and well. Bob Dylan. I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.

  David Geffen

  Artist, People, World

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• And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Mistake, Bigger, Surface

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• I try to design into a world that is constantly moving, and moving me.

  Ralph Lauren

  Moving, Design, World

  Twitter post from Aug 21, 2012

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• Nobody had his [Ed Wood's] style. That's something I try to do in my films. You have your own kind of cryptic messages in there - cryptic things that most people wouldn't understand but are important to you. Things that kind of keep you going through the process.

  Tim Burton

  People, Style, Important

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• Is beauty a reminder of something we once knew, with poetry one of its vehicles? Does it give us a brief vision of that 'rarely glimpsed bright face behind/ the apparency of things'? Here, I suppose, we ought to try the impossible task of defining poetry. No one definition will do. But I must admit to a liking for the words of Thomas Fuller, who said: 'Poetry is a dangerous honey. I advise thee only to taste it with the Tip of thy finger and not to live upon it. If thou do'st, it will disorder thy Head and give thee dangerous Vertigos.

  P. K. Page

  Giving, Vision, Honey

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• I wonder how appropriate it is to try to 'argue someone into the kingdom.' Many apologists hotly deny any such charge, but I don't believe them. The tenor of almost all apologetics literature makes it plain that this is their intent.

  Robert M. Price

  Believe, Religion, Atheism

  Robert M. Price (2008). “Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity”, p.63, Wildside Press LLC

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• Well, I come down in the morning and I take up a pencil and
  I try to THINK.

  Hans Bethe

  Morning, Thinking, Wells

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• I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music, sex, race, or consumerism. I try to examine it and scrutinize it to the point where I can write a song.

  Macklemore

  Song, Sex, Writing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't worry about nothing. I have a lot of concerns. My life is full of concerns, but I try not to worry.

  Richard Childress

  Worry, Life Is, Concern

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• Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.

  Norman Borlaug

  Regret, Past, Men

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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• We're learning lessons from Africa. And the lesson that we need to learn is, how do we straighten our backs up in the face of these oligarchs and plutocrats who are trying to snatch the best of our democracy away?

  Cornel West

  Democracy, Needs, Lessons

  FaceBook post by Dr. Cornel West from Feb 22, 2011

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• We are a democracy and we don't believe in just hunting down gangsters and killing them. We believe in trying to find the gangsters and bring them back for trial, and give them a trial under rule of law. That's what democracies do.

  Cornel West

  Believe, Hunting, Law

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• And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings.

  Sibel Edmonds

  Responsibility, Past, Three

  "Former FBI Translator Sibel Edmonds Calls Current 9/11 Investigation Inadequate". Interview with Jim Hogue, baltimorechronicle.com. May 7, 2004.

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• There are always risks when you chase after a dream because growth requires that you leave your comfort zone and enter unknown territory. But without confronting those risks and facing your fears, you'll never, as Nike says, "Just do it." Now the truth is, you may fail in some of your efforts, but you will never succeed if you are not willing to risk failure. And even if you do fail, you can learn from the experience and try again. To do that, you will need courage, and you will also need to have faith in your ability to achieve your goals.

  Stedman Graham

  Faith, Dream, Nike

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• I'm trying to make music a sensual expression, not an academic experiment.

  Andrew Hill

  Music, Expression, Sensual

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• Grammy asshole weekend in LA. Yuck ... The Grammys = the old guard / old media propping up their puppets trying to convince the outside world, and each other, they're relevant.

  Trent Reznor

  Weekend, Media, Yuck

  "Echo Chamber: Trent Reznor" by Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2010.

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• At some point, I get a weird feeling, and that's when I know it's done. I probably ruin a lot of really perfectly fine things. So part of working on paper, and trying to work really fast, is to see if I can expand the area of not being driven by taste. Not saying, "This looks good, I'll stop."

  Amy Sillman

  Feelings, Done, Driven

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