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"I should be able to look at my accolades and go, "Come on, Paul. That's enough." But there's still this little voice in the back of my brain that goes, "No, no, no. You could do better. This person over here is excelling. Try harder!" It still can be a little bit intimidating."
"I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do."
"George Harrison and John Lennon were the ones most against touring ... I'd been trying to say ..Ah, tourings good and it keeps us sharp .. but finally I agreed with them"
"I'm trying to do it honestly and genuinely; if some of it's not working to your taste, what can I say?"
"If we keep kicking the can down the road, if we follow the president's lead or if we pass the Senate budget, then we will have a debt crisis. Then everybody gets hurt. You know who gets hurt first and the worst in a debt crisis? The poor, the elderly. That's what we're trying to prevent from happening."
"I think the Democrats are trying to say is like in February [2017] it goes away and you won`t have your health care plan tomorrow. That`s not what we`re talking about."
"We do not have a debt crisis right now, but we see it coming. We know it's irrefutably happening. And the point we're trying to make with our budget is let's get ahead of this problem."
"We have intelligent species on our planet that we are not even trying to communicate with."
"Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference."
"All men and women are connected by an energy which we call love, but which is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe was built. This energy cannot be manipulated, it leads us gently forward, it contains all we have to learn in this life. If we try to make it go in the direction we want, we end up desperate, frustrated, disillusioned, because that energy is free and wild."
"Love one another, but let’s try not to possess one another."
"I don't try to control my days."
"And so I am this pilgrim - if I can somehow answer your question - who's constantly amazed by this journey. Who is learning a new thing every single day. But who's not accumulating knowledge, because then it becomes a very heavy burden in your back. I am this person who is proud to be a pilgrim, and who's trying to honor his journey."
"Beware of anyone who tries to please you all the time."
"Every second of the search is an encounter with God. When I have been truly searching for my treasure, every day has been luminous...I've discovered things along the way that I never would have seen had I not had the courage to try things that seemed impossible for a shepherd to achieve."
"People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it."
"Always saying, "I tried" when you didn't really try at all."
"Never looking anyone in the eye when you're traveling on public transport, in case it's interpreted as a sign that you're trying to get off with them."
"God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle of this adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside."
"So for the question I go to the mystery of it and say I don't know. I only know that I am alive and there is something that manifests in my life, that it is God and one day I am going to understand my life, probably in the day that I die, or afterwards. But I try to find good questions and not good answers."
