Trying Quotes - Page 19

• There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we're probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to be politically correct, when we really need to make sure that our cities get the money they need.

  Shelley Berkley

  Cities, Giving, Desire

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• It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Practice, Tennis, Psychologist

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• Mary Joe Fernandez rarely has a bad loss. She never tries for stupid shots.

  Tracy Austin

  Stupid, Loss, Shots

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• To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.

  Jim Bakker

  Wall, Son, Hypnosis

  "The Best of Interviews With Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Messner". “CNN Larry King Weekend”, www.cnn.com. June 24, 2001.

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• And God knows I needed to be forgiven. So I had to forgive everybody. And then God - as I read in the word, you're supposed to pray for your enemies. Try that one on

  Jim Bakker

  Forgiving, Enemy, Praying

  "The Best of Interviews With Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Messner". “CNN Larry King Weekend”, www.cnn.com. June 24, 2001.

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• Conversations with my mother, father, my grandparents, as I've grown up have obviously driven me towards wanting to try and make a difference as much as possible.

  Prince Harry

  Mother, Father, Differences

  "Lonely prince looking for love: Harry opens his heart on his search for a fairytale princess" by Victoria Murphy, www.mirror.co.uk. March 14, 2012.

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• However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.

  Andrew Wiles

  Seems, Ifs

  "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". "NOVA" Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

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• The more freedom I allow myself as a writer to wander, become lost and go into uncertain territory - and I am always trying to go to the more awkward place, the more difficult place - the more frightening it is, because I have no plan.

  Nicole Krauss

  Always Trying, Awkward, Territory

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• Here's what you should say [to an investor]: 'this is what my company does' It's that simple. What you're trying to do is get potential investors to fantasize about how your product or service will make a boatload of money. They can't fantasize if they don't know what you do.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Simple, Doe, Should

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• Leading a healthy, active lifestyle is all about momentum. If I'm in the middle of training it's easy for me to keep that up. It gets tough when I'm on a break. I just try to start my day with a good breakfast and a quick walk, something simple that gets the day off on the right foot. The more I do that, the more I make healthy choices that reflect the good choices made earlier.

  Natalie Coughlin

  Simple, Choices Made, Feet

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• Never try to take a fortified hill, especially if the Army on top is bigger than you are

  William Redington Hewlett

  Army, Hills, Bigger

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• In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Opportunity, Opinion, Problem

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• If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

  A. J. Liebling

  Long, Boots, Enough

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• I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us

  Alice Hoffman

  Believe, Fate, Thinking

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• You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this

  Alice Hoffman

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Jobs

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• Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.

  William McDonough

  Be Good, Earnest, Redesign

  William McDonough, Michael Braungart (2010). “Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things”, p.177, Macmillan

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• At the same time that I'm finding the color world I want, I'm also trying to make the imagery, you know, by the nature of the strokes themselves.

  Chuck Close

  Color, World, Want

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• You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on natures own hues and tints.

  William Merritt Chase

  Light, Color, Hue

  D. Scott Atkinson, Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., William Merritt Chase (1987). “William Merritt Chase: Summers at Shinnecock 1891-1902”, Universe Publishing(NY)

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• Don't try to make comparisons between your own pictures. Forget what you have done and think only of making the best of what you are doing.

  William Merritt Chase

  Thinking, Done, Forget

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• I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.

  Andy Summers

  Guitar, Police, Keyboards

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• When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

  Robert Wyatt

  Singing, Singers, Feels

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• Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.

  Idi Amin

  Uganda, Boxing, Opponents

  Interview, African summit talks, Angola, "The Palm Beach Post" Newspaper, (p.A8), January 12, 1976.

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• I try to concentrate on quality clothing and accessories that are worth having, and to get my people to take fewer trips by air and stay longer each time they travel. It’s more human, especially if they take time to visit an art gallery while there.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Art, Air, People

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• For me I'm a luxury brand trying to prove to people and the industry that it's not about being a TV celebrity in any which way, it's about being a designer and having a business and being successful at that.

  Christian Siriano

  Successful, Luxury, People

  "'Project Runway' Star Christian Siriano Delivers Another Hit at New York Fashion Week". www.foxnews.com. February 15, 2010.

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• A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

  Christian Siriano

  Quality, Pieces, Investment

  "Project Runway's Fiercest Designer Ever". Interview with Leonora Epstein, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 29, 2008.

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