Trying Quotes - Page 23

• Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wants you to be, that's stupid. So be yourself.

  Christina Grimmie

  Being Yourself, Stupid, Dumb

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

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• I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect ones and enjoy the challenge of making readers root for them in spite of their unsympathetic path and destructive choices. Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.

  Emily Giffin

  Real, Writing, Character

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• The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class people have: If middle-class people go to college and own homes, then surely if more people go to college and own homes, we’ll have more middle-class people. But homeownership and college aren’t causes of middle-class status, they’re markers for possessing the kinds of traits — self-discipline, the ability to defer gratification, etc. — that let you enter, and stay, in the middle class. Subsidizing the markers doesn’t produce the traits; if anything, it undermines them.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Home, College, Class

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• If you're starting out or trying to get to the next level, surround yourself with people who keep you motivated and energized - people who inspire you to achieve your best every day. When you do this, you can't lose.

  Anthony Famiglietti

  People, Inspire, Starting Out

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• Trying to explain or define grace is like catching the wind in a cardboard box or describing the color green.

  Cathleen Falsani

  Color, Wind, Grace

  Cathleen Falsani (2008). “Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• I think the themes in my songs are very similar from the first album to the newest one. It's all about the human condition and how we are all trying to learn to live with each other and survive love and life.

  Deana Carter

  Song, Life And Love, Thinking

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• Whether you're a cameraman or a director, you should ask yourself every now and then, 'What am I trying to do?' Be honest and keep things very simple.

  James Wong Howe

  Simple, Directors, Honest

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• Well, I'm still looking for Maurice Ashley. My essential qualities. I think that more than anything, I try to do the right thing, I think about doing the right thing.

  Maurice Ashley

  Thinking, Quality, Essentials

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• Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.

  Lev Yilmaz

  Character, Optimism, Negative

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• I was listening to all those lyrics and trying to take in everything that was happening. I was completely excited. It was one of the greatest times that I had listening to music.

  Jay McShann

  Listening, Excited, Happenings

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• One of the main reasons wealth makes people unhappy is that it gives them too much control over what they experience. They try to translate their own fantasies into reality instead of tasting what reality itself has to offer.

  Philip Slater

  Reality, People, Giving

  Philip Elliot Slater (1980). “Wealth Addiction”, Dutton Adult

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• One of the hardest decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Perseverance, Giving Up, Choices

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• People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it. Only try to keep yourself clear and don't allow that destructive force to spoil something that to you is simple, natural, and beautiful.

  Eva Le Gallienne

  Beautiful, Hate, Simple

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• The New Yorker has always dealt with experience not by trying to understand it but by prescribing the attitude to be adopted toward it. This makes it possible to feel intelligent without thinking, and it is a way of making everything tolerable, for the assumption of a suitable attitude toward experience can give one the illusion of having dealt with it adequately.

  Robert Warshow

  Attitude, Intelligent, Thinking

  Robert Warshow (1962). “The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre & Other Aspects of Popular Culture”, p.75, Harvard University Press

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• I say, don't read the classics - try to discover your own classics; every life has its own.

  Rudolf Flesch

  RUDOLF AUTOR FLESCH, Rudolf Franz Flesch (1954). “How to Make Sense”

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• Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air - our pride, our feeling that we are the most important people in the whole entire world and that everything should revolve round us.

  Jackie Tabick

  Pride, Air, People

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• And then in life, you always have to try, and today, I may not have succeeded, but I am happy to have tried to beat my record.

  Noureddine Morceli

  Records, May, Olympics

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• I'm not trying to be cocky, but I set such a high standard for myself. I'm not happy when I pitch seven innings and give up two runs and get a win.

  Barry Zito

  Running, Giving Up, Cocky

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• I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they choose, they'll need to really pay attention to it.

  Gerry Cooney

  Baseball, Country, League

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

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• Best merchants are the ones who dictate cool, not those who try to predict it!

  Kevin Plank

  Merchants

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• What to do when the market goes down? Read the opinions of the investment gurus who are quoted in the WSJ. And, as you read, laugh. We all know that the pundits can't predict short-term market movements. Yet there they are, desperately trying to sound intelligent when they really haven't got a clue.

  Jonathan Clements

  Intelligent, Laughing, Sound

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• I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.

  Kate Clinton

  Eugenics, Cds, Records

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• There is no one on Earth quite like you. No one can compare to you. Three questions: Do you realize how special you are? Do you believe how special you are? Do you demonstrate to the world how special you are? Don’t live your life trying to live someone else’s life. Be you!

  Clifton Anderson

  Believe, Special You, Live Your Life

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• There are in me the seeds from which, if necessary, the universe could be constructed. In me somewhere there is a matrix for mankind and a holograph for the whole world. Nothing is more important in my life than trying to discover these secrets.

  Ted Simon

  Secret, Important, World

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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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