Trying Quotes - Page 28

• I do want to try to put things in perspective today relative to the U.S.-Canada relationship. I would like to start by talking about how important this relationship is to the people of the United States.

  Paul Cellucci

  Talking, People, Perspective

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• 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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• Look, when you are starting to put something together, you want the pudding to come out good. You're trying to put in the right ingredients.

  Bill Parcells

  Motivational, Sports, Together

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• You are trying not only to reach your potential but to move beyond it. If you are not in the best shape you can be, these things simply become more difficult to achieve.

  Rick Pitino

  Motivational, Sports, Moving

  Rick Pitino (1997). “Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life”, Broadway

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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 get across the message that don't be afraid of animals, they're just put on this earth to help the environment and everything like that.

  Bindi Irwin

  Animal, Earth, Messages

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• Basketball's so much like life: if something's going great, you wait a minute, it will change. If something's going bad, you wait a minute, it will change. So I try to play things on such an even keel, knowing that things are going to change. You take the good with the bad; you don't get too excited, you don't get too down and sometimes that's the hardest thing in the world to do when you're in the midst of it, but that's the best way to handle it.

  Tim Duncan

  Basketball, Play, Knowing

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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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• I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Artist, Rivers, Next

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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 liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.

  Howard Nemerov

  Kids, Term Paper, Doing Me

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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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• My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  People, Goal, States

  "Robert Anton Wilson : Searching For Cosmic Intelligence". Interview with Jeffrey Elliot, 1980.

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• The man who is an initiate of one of the great Mystery Schools never fears to let his pupils outdistance him, because he knows that it stands him in good stead with his superiors if he is constantly sending up to them aspirants who 'make good.' He therefore never tries to hold back a promising pupil, because he has no need to fear that pupil, if allowed to penetrate into the Mysteries, would spy out the nakedness of the land; he will rather bring back a report of its exceeding richness, and thereby confirm the statements of his teacher and spur his fellow pupils to yet greater eagerness.

  Dion Fortune

  Teacher, School, Men

  Dion Fortune (2016). “Esoteric Orders And Their Work”, p.52, Dion Fortune

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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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• 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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• I had at one point this rather depressing image of some alien culture seeing the death of this planet - coming down in their spaceships and sniffing around; finding all our skeletons sitting around our TV sets and trying to work out why our end came before its time and they come to the conclusion that we amused ourselves to death.

  Roger Waters

  Depressing, Skeletons, Work Out

  "Amused to Death" syndicate Radio Premiere, 1992.

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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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• 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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• Simple people have much to offer. We too in return must give to them to the best of our abilities. We must with all our heart, try to help them acquire what they truly deserve.

  Simin Daneshvar

  Heart, Simple, People

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

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• All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.

  Scott McCloud

  Careers, Always Trying, Form

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 23, 2000.

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• One might as well try to perform brain surgery with a sledgehammer.

  Ben Bernanke

  Brain, Might, Surgery

  Remarks by Governor Ben S. Bernanke, before the New York Chapter of the National Association for Business Economics, New York, New York, www.federalreserve.gov. October 15, 2002.

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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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