Trying Quotes - Page 39

• As a singer, I float around. I'm kind of scatty, bouncing around a lot. I try to adapt to what's going on around me in the song and the arrangement.

  Daryl Hall

  Song, Singers, Kind

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• My dog has a cough. If you've never seen a dog with a cough, I recommend trying to find one. It's hilarious.

  Zach Braff

  Dog, My Dog, Ifs

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• I definitely try to play a common man in my roles so people can identify with my characters, but the truth of the matter is that it doesn't really matter what I do or my lines are, I'm still Zach Braff, and people know I'm better than them.

  Zach Braff

  Character, Men, Play

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• People are always saying bad things about them, but really they think they're just trying to clean up our planet. I'm not saying it's right but, you know, we could all benefit from following that example.

  Zach Braff

  Thinking, People, Example

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• I've been doing som jogging at home recently and every time I try the distance I end up beating his time with like three or four seconds.

  Zach Braff

  Distance, Home, Jogging

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• I love being gay. I love gay people. I think we're better than other people. I really do. I think we're smarter and more talented and more aware. I do, I totally do. I really do think all of these things. And I try very hard to remember all this.

  Larry Kramer

  Gay, Love Is, Thinking

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• We have to think bigger as writers. We have to try and change the world.

  Larry Kramer

  Thinking, World, Think Big

  "The making of Larry Kramer's Americans" by David Leavitt, www.newyorker.com. May 19, 2015.

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• Try everything that can be done.... Learn your own possibilities.

  George Bellows

  Done, Possibility

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• My brother and I used to try to derail a train over and over again. We didn't know any better.

  Carolyn Meinel

  Brother, Used, Knows

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• I'm always trying to get to a danger point in color, where color either becomes too sweet or it becomes too harsh, it becomes too noisy or too quiet, and at that point I still want the picture to be strong, forceful, and the carrier of everything that a painting has to have: contrast, drama, austerity.

  Wolf Kahn

  Sweet, Strong, Drama

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• You know, comments about style always seem strange to me - 'why do you work in this style, or in that style' - as if you had a choice in the matter... What you're doing is trying to stay alive and continue and not die.

  Philip Guston

  Choices, Style, Alive

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• I have always said I will try to answer questions honestly. I don't want to change that about myself. I think people appreciate that about me.

  Rory McIlroy

  Thinking, People, Appreciate

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• My biggest fear always is that I’ll photograph an idea rather than a person, so I try to be quite sensitive to how people are.

  Anton Corbijn

  Ideas, People, Sensitive

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• Advice? Focus on the craft. Study the greats. Try and understand how and why they made the writing choices they did. Then, start by copying them...just as an exercise. See if you can do similar things. Learn how to write a song like so and so. Then, when you've done that, write a song like yourself. Learn to color within the lines before going outside them.

  Patrick Stump

  Song, Writing, Exercise

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• I don't mind if someone thinks I'm a sell out. I go to bed happy knowing I do what I do and I'm not doing anything for reasons of money, and if I were trying to pick up chicks, I'm doing a horrible job. And if I wanted to drive awesome cars, I'm doing a really bad job there too.

  Patrick Stump

  Jobs, Thinking, Knowing

  AbsolutePunk.net Intreview, October 6, 2008.

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• Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious and pervasive to be defined. Alcohol is everywhere in your life, omnipresent, and you're both aware and unaware of it almost all the time, all you know is you'd die without it, and there is no simple reason why this happens, no single moment, no physiological event that pushes a heavy drinker across a concrete line into alcoholism. It's a slow, gradual, insidious, elusive becoming.

  Caroline Knapp

  Single Mom, Simple, Air

  Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.8, Dial Press

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• Those who dare to try what others only dream of - never fail to discover that real effort is always rewarded.

  Guy Finley

  Dream, Real, Effort

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Jun 13, 2014

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• I've read that male dolphins try to have sex with humans, and female apes solicit sex from humans. What is wrong with giving them what they want, if that's what turns you on, or even just to gratify them?

  Richard Stallman

  Sex, Giving, Want

  "Extreme Pornography Law in the UK". Personal Website, stallman.org. February 19, 2010.

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• I'm trying to change the way people approach knowledge and information in general. I think that to try to own knowledge, to try to control whether people are allowed to use it, or to try to stop other people from sharing it, is sabotage.

  Richard Stallman

  Thinking, People, Use

  "Richard Stallman discusses his public-domain Unix-compatible software system with BYTE editors". Interview with David Betz and Jon Edwards, www.gnu.org. July 1986.

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• If you're trying to hide something, you wouldn't keep getting away with it for 10 years. Nobody is that clever.

  Lance Armstrong

  Clever, Years, Get Away

  "Bits and pieces". www.thenews.com.pk. February 18, 2011.

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• I didn't invent the culture, but I didn't try to stop the culture.

  Lance Armstrong

  Culture, Doping

  "Lance Armstrong makes Oprah confession". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.abc.net.au. January 18, 2013.

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• You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Growing Up, Humor

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

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• I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a drum machine I'll use a drum machine. If it needs a drummer, I'll use a real drummer.

  Teena Marie

  Song, Real, Sacrifice

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• As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality.

  Grimes

  Challenges, Quality, Nails

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• I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.

  Park Geun-hye

  Perception, Asia, East

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