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"You can spend your life competing in a world that talks too loud / You can lose your own direction getting lost among the crowd / Confusion - is it any wonder that the road ahead's not clear / Well you can try too hard to find it now I realise it's here"
"My dark comic edge is the end result of trying to use humor to maintain my sanity growing up in a dysfunctional family in Honolulu."
"I try to get a degree of realism in my music."
"Look to it that you do not try to do all of it, do not try to do too much, lest your spirit grow weary. Besides, a good prayer mustn't be too long. Do not draw it out. Prayer ought to be frequent and fervent."
"The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful."
"Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together."
"I try to be good but sometimes a person just has to break out and act like the wild and springy thing one used to be. It's impossible not to remember wild an want it back."
"Usually I'm trying to turn something around or turn it inside out and see what's underneath. I know that probably sounds incredibly vague but I never set out to be likeable or funny or anything like that. I'm just trying to tell the story in the best way that I can and serve the writer because it's really about the writer."
"When I write, I'm writing as a fan, and trying to come up with songs that I would want to listen to."
"I am writing from the heart and having a fresh approach to things. We [Theocracy] are obviously not trying to musically re-invent the wheel here, and you can certainly hear our influences, but we also don't sound like a copycat of any one band."
"When I was asked to do something good, I often say yes, I'll try, yes, I'll do my best. And part of that is believing, if God loves me, if God made everything from leaves to seals and oak trees, then what is it I can't do?"
"To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable."
"Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill."
"In all the institutions I try to be present and accountable for all I do and leave undone. I know that eventually I shall have to be present and accountable n the presence of God. I do not wish to be found wanting."
"People trying to separate people rather than bring us together... please. You don't just see it in America. It's all over the world."
"I think I know that I deserve better. And so I try for better. I'm never so put off that I would ever walk out of a place not having tried the best I could."
"I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. So at this wonderful, young age of 65, I don't know yet what the Lord has for me to do. I try to live up to the energy and to the calling, but I wouldn't dare say I have even scratched the surface yet."
"It is very dangerous to make a person larger than life because, then, young men and women are tempted to believe, well, if he was that great, he's inaccessible, and I can never try to be that or emulate that or achieve that."
"If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved."
"If I'm going to a new country, I try to learn something about the language and the culture, so I don't just go bumbling over things."
