"I never tried quitting, and I never quit trying."
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"Solutions nearly always come from the direction you least expect, which means there's no point trying to look in that direction because it won't be coming from there."
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"I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target."
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"When people say "What do you want people to get from this movie?" I say, "Well, it depends on what they bring to it." I don't try to decide what people should get from it or why. I don't do a part for those kinds of reasons."
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"I'm not trying to top anything. I'm trying to be useful, to play a positive role, to serve the public interest."
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"I always make special notes about evidence that contridicts me: supportive evidence I can remember without trying."
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"I guess it's like trying to put through the flat tax, which is probably my favorite one of all.... if we did pass it, all of a sudden, what do you have? You have the whole tax system run by a little old lady on a home computer, doing the work of all these thousands of bureaucrats and accountants. Passing that would be amazing, wouldn't it?"
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"Murray sounds like a blindfolded man riding a unicycle on the rim of the pit of doom, the men actually facing the danger are all so taciturn that you might as well try interviewing the cars themselves."
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"Sometimes there's a general arc that you want to try and get better the longer you do something."
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"The Path is not far from man. When men try to pursue a course, which is far from the common indications of consciousness, this course cannot be considered The Path."
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"I try to, in my own fallible way, speak the truth."
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"I think, Tom Friedman is right, and I think that we have to - we have to have a serious public dialogue to try to shift public policy in that regard."
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"I'd like to be the role model to teach other people who have Down's syndrome to be actors and actresses and to be themselves and not try to be a big shot."
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"The billion people who wake up every day trying to figure out if they have enough food to eat won't be at Davos."
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"I just try to understand that tomorrow is another day."
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"It's always disappointing when people decide for one reason or another that they don't like your work anymore, but you can't try to please people, because then you're just going to be doing - you'll never live it down, y'know it'll always be dogging you around - you might be being a fake about the whole thing."
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"The bad people trying to make the world worse never take a day off, so why should I?"
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"Ninety to ninety-five percent of people will withdraw to the comfort zone when what they try doesn't work. Only that small percentage, 5 or 10 percent, will continually improve themselves; they will continually push themselves out into the zone of discomfort, and these are always the highest performers in every field."
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"The more times and the more different things you try, the more likely it is that you will succeed."
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"Fast tempo is essential for success; do it, fix it, try it!"
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