Trying Quotes - Page 18

• What does it mean to be a snowboarder? It's about having fun, with your friends or by yourself. It's about pushing yourself to try new things and do the unexpected. Finally, and most importantly, it's about being creative.

  Shaun White

  Sports, Fun, Mean

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• I'm trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can't worry about someone else's house.

  Bill Parcells

  Motivational, Sports, Worry

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• I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.

  Spike Lee

  Common, Audience, Lowest

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I never try and sound like Sabbath.

  Geezer Butler

  Sound, Sabbath

  "It's Just Honest Music". Interview with David Marchese, www.popmatters.com. July 13, 2005.

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• For me, personally, when I'm afraid of something - when you're afraid of something, normally you try to go away, you try to avoid it. Instead of avoiding it, to overcome your fear, I believe you need to embrace it.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Believe, Going Away, Overcoming

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• And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.

  Thomas Keneally

  Writing, Mind, Crafts

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• I’m trying to think of the last time I had onions.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Thinking, Onions, Lasts

  "Karl Lagerfeld On His Hair, Women In Thongs & The Last Time He Cried" by Hilary Moss, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2011.

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• We shouldn't be copying what we see. We should try to find our own sense of style, to believe in ourselves.

  Donatella Versace

  Believe, Style, Copying

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• Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights

  Maria Weston Chapman

  Selfish, Men, Rights

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• If George Bush [Jr.] decided he was going to turn the troops loose on Syria and Iran after that he would last in office for about 15 minutes. In fact if President Bush were to try that now even I would think that he ought to be impeached. You can't get away with that sort of thing in this democracy.

  Lawrence Eagleburger

  Thinking, Iran, Office

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• I’m constantly criticised for being too skinny. I’m trying to gain weight but my body won’t let it happen. What people don’t understand is that calling someone too skinny is the same as calling someone too fat, it’s not a nice feeling.

  Kendall Jenner

  Nice, People, Feelings

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• A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Writing, Want, Take Me

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• Organised religion tries to control, so therefore must be lying.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Lying, Organised Religion, Organised

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• If anyone is getting industrious trying to enturbulate [sic] or stop Scientology or its activities, I can make Captain Bligh look like a Sunday-school teacher. There is probably no limit on what I would do to safeguard Man's only road to freedom against persons who ... seek to stop Scientology or hurt Scientologists.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Teacher, Hurt, School

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• I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, not in a chaos without norms, even though that is how it sometimes appears. My subjects are also often playful: I cannot refrain from demonstrating the nonsensicalness of some of what we take to be irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure to deliberately mix together objects of two and three dimensions, surface and spatial relationships, and to make fun of gravity.

  M. C. Escher

  Beautiful, Fun, Two

  "Escher on Escher: exploring the infinite". Book by J. W. Vermeulen, H. N. Abrams, 1989.

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• Although I am even now still a layman in the area of mathematics, and although I lack theoretical knowledge, the mathematicians, and in particular the crystallographers, have had considerable influence on my work of the last twenty years. The laws of the phenomena around us--order, regularity, cyclical repetition, and renewals--have assumed greater and greater importance for me. The awareness of their presence gives me peace and provides me with support. I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, and not in a formless chaos, as it sometimes seems.

  M. C. Escher

  Beautiful, Years, Law

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• I spend my day trying to make myself as happy and relaxed as I can be. If I have positions going against me, I get right out; if they are going for me, I keep them.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Position, Relaxed, Ifs

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• Bernanke and company are trying to reflate the economy with almost stated objective of inflation at 2 percent and higher in order to provide some type of safety margin for a future recession. That's where they want to go.

  Bill Gross

  Order, Safety, Want

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• There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.

  Stephen Dunn

  Simple, Events, Legends

  Stephen Dunn (1995). “New and Selected Poems 1974-1994”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Thinking, Ideas, Sitting Down

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• My Prime Minister regards the economy as our highest priority and forgets that economics and ecology are derived from the same Greek word, oikos, meaning household or domain. Ecology is the study of home, while economics is its management. Ecologists try to define the conditions and principles that enable a species to survive and flourish. Yet in elevating the economy above those principles, we seem to think we are immune to the laws of nature. We have to put the ‘eco’ back into economics.

  David Suzuki

  Home, Thinking, Law

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• Do not try to know the truth, for knowledge by the mind is not true knowledge. But you can know what is not true-which is enough to liberate you from the false. The idea that you know what is true is dangerous, for it keeps you imprisoned in the mind. It is when you do not know, that you are free to investigate. And there can be no salvation, without investigation, because non investigation is the main cause of bondage.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Ideas, Mind, Causes

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• I’m trying to tell people that I am happy the way I am. But why do people have to call my happiness a failure?

  Kim Ung-yong

  People, Way

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• I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children] is compulsory schooling...and that children are sitting there and they are taught and told what to believe. They are passive from the very beginning, and one must be very, very aggressive intellectually to have a high IQ [...] the child is taught. Right from the beginning, it's a passive process. He or she sits there, and they simply try to believe everything they're told.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Children, Believe, Intelligent

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• Even if there were only two men left in the world and both of them saints they wouldn't be happy. One them would be bound to try and improve the other. That is the nature of things.

  Frank O'Connor

  Men, Two, Saint

  Frank O'Connor (1944). “Crab Apple Jelly: Stories and Tales”

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