"There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free."
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"That which does not kill you usually circles around and tries again."
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"I'll die propped up in bed trying to do a poem about America."
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"I don't mind trying it out and making sure something seems to work well."
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"Try to let what is unfair teach you."
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"I change as the times change. I'm a reflection of what's around me without trying at all."
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"When watering your plants, try to talk to them - say something like, Hold it right there and then shoot them with water gun."
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"To some I am known as Chief. And these are usually people who work in Radio Shack or try to sell me shoes. To others I am known as Buddy. These are people who dwell in bars and wonder if I’ve got a problem or what it is that I am “looking at.” And to still others, who are in that same bar, standing just off to the side, I am “Get Him!""
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"Women don't like guys who are dangerous. Women just want us to think that because women are trying to kill us."
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"I try to do the right thing."
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"We get most upset with those we love because they are close to us and we know that they are aware of our weaknesses. . . If only we could learn to live with our inadequacies, our frailties, our vulnerabilities, we would not need to try so hard to push away those who really know us."
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"Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack."
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"Sometimes bad things happen when you try to do something good."
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"I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that is."
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"I just try to be true to myself and look the way that I'm comfortable looking. Because if I'm comfortable with me, then you're going to be comfortable with me as well."
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"What I am doing is making songs that I like that I think sounds like other songs that I like. I'm really trying my best to emulate bands that I like a lot. Which I think is what a lot of bands are doing, whether they're saying it or not."
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"I despise all adjectives that try to describe people as liberal or conservative, rightist or leftist, as long as they stay in the useful part of the road."
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"Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day."
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"Lord, what are you trying to teach me?"
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"All my life I'm trying to go forward and trying to grow."
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