Trying Quotes - Page 27

• I’m a total atheist, and for me it’s just about trying to find something that rises above the banal day-to-day bullshit of living.

  Myla Goldberg

  Atheist, Bullshit, Rise Above

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• Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.

  Brian Kernighan

  Purpose, Defeat, Programming

  Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger (1978). “The Elements of Programming Style”, Computing McGraw-Hill

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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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• Trying your best is bringing your best... that's the way to do it! Desire and passion is everything.

  Victoria Azarenka

  Passion, Desire, Way

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• Just love what you are doing, and try to play more.

  Lang Lang

  Play

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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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• Things change all the time, and theyll probably never be the same again. Its just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you try to start second guessing that, you either get rich or die broke.

  Guy Clark

  Mean, Guessing, Things Change

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• If you ain't trying to cheat a little, you ain't likely to win much.

  Richard Petty

  Winning, Littles, Cheat

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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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• 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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• Fail, it's not in my dictionary. I've got a good dictionary up there and the words 'fail' and 'failure' have been ruled out for years. I don't know what people are talking about who use that word. All I do know is temporary non-success, even if I've got to wait another 20 years for what I'm after, and I try to put that into people, no matter what their object in life.

  Percy Cerutty

  Talking, Years, People

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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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• Don't make the mistakes I made of not taking care of myself. Please, keeps your chops cool and don't overblow. If you are going to play hard, be sure to warm up. I'd get carried away trying to stay right with the momentum [of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers]. I used to try and play like Coltrane and solo for 30 or 40 choruses. It all caught up with me.

  Freddie Hubbard

  Music, Art, Mistake

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• If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that.

  Roscoe Mitchell

  Music, Way, Sound

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• I'm trying to take a positive out the disappointment, but I'm also trying to do what's best for my career as well.

  Dathan Ritzenhein

  Motivational, Disappointment, Athlete

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• It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  People, Political, Politics

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• As plants take hold, not for the sake of staying, but only that they may climb higher, so it is with men. By every part of our nature we clasp things above us, one after another, not for the sake of remaining where we take hold, but that we may go higher.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, May, Sake

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• Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Venture, Life Is, Should

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• Experiment is folly when experience shows the way.

  Roger Babson

  Way, Folly, Shows

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• "They've been trying to test on animals for the past 50 years. Nobody's come up with a cure,"he says. "If you want to test on somebody, test on me."

  Montel Williams

  Animal, Past, Years

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• In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.

  Frederick The Great

  Focus, Prussia

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• Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Honesty, Lying, Heart

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• Who wills,
  Can.
  Who tries,
  Does.
  Who loves,
  Lives.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Inspirational, Life, Doe

  Anne McCaffrey (2016). “Dragonsong”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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