"I'm not trying to say I'm a big tough guy... I'm a typical American-waist deep in this violent culture."
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"I'm not trying to amass people in the streets. I just want them to be more aware."
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"I'm not like paparazzi. I never force myself on anyone. I always ask, and some places offer money. And so I try and get these photos to give you, the viewer, a real look at what I was seeing."
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"Take a chance and try my fare! It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you!"
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"All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him, to[21] reach a conclusion. "Man" involuntarily presents himself to them as an aeterna veritas as a passive element in every hurly-burly, as a fixed standard of things. Yet everything uttered by the philosopher on the subject of man is, in the last resort, nothing more than a piece of testimony concerning man during a very limited period of time."
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"When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them."
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"One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of "by the foolishness of preaching.""
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"Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting before yourself an aim, a goal, a 'to this end', an exalted and noble 'to this end'."
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"My view is, Democrat, Republican, it doesn't matter, my view is I'm in Washington to try to work with people."
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"If you grow up fat, you have to try harder."
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"When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express."
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"She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion, he would resolve with punches, slaps, kicks, and sometimes try to make amends for with polluted apologies, and sometimes not."
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"Saying this, he turned his head toward the window as if he were trying to solve the problems of human existence by concentrating on the beauty of the universe."
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"But, there was a time when we all had a great thing going but one person just became very uncomfortable with it and he had to try to change it around to suit him more and then it suited no one else but him."
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"God, why do I give interviews to 'the Guardian'? They always try to dissect you, and I don't really think about stuff in the way that you're asking me these questions."
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"Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don't even want to try. I don't agree with that approach."
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"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try."
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"The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say."
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"Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands."
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"I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part of it, but I cannot accomplish it. I think there is no genuinely sentimental part to it. It is all grotesque, ghastly, horrible."
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