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"Of course, you've got to reckon with the burden of the past. You can't just easily dismiss it. It is a legacy and often you have to carry an albatross. And it won't happen until people are able to have a certain level of trust and try to speak to each other, not as caricatures but as people."
"I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and you see the settlements, you see what has happened to the land that was owned by the Palestinians."
"God is trying to woo us into a love affair with God."
"I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag to bulls."
"Once you've chosen a man, don't try to change him', I wrote with more confidence. 'It can't be done. More important-don't let him try to change you."
"And Finally I put down the last and the best advice I knew, on growing older. 'Stand up straight and try not to get fat."
"Women are the cradles of life. What sort of man tries to break a cradle (Marc)"
"Certainly one must try everything, but only to become more certain what God's way is."
"I try not to make social consciousness a massive part of my music or comedy because I prefer to be an entertainer first and foremost, then do actual grassroots work when I can."
"I just love the subversion of dialogue in sitcoms, stand-up is monologue and that is entertaining for a lot of people but personally I find it a bit trying, which is a weird thing to say as a stand-up! I love people aping normal conversation and twisting it so it becomes hilarious."
"I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that."
"You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that's left for you or to make one of your own."
"I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!"
"I try not to go around looking like a hag."
"People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves."
"I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it."
"I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes."
"I used to try to write a song a day. I've been so busy lately."
"The film project has been “twenty years of constipation,” and he likens the Hollywood process to “trying to grill a steak by having a succession of people coming into the room and breathing on it.”"
"The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of the word "Infinite". Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, "wow, that's big", time. Infinity is just so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here."
