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"But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him."
"It's important to keep challenging myself and try to come up with some new face every now and again."
"For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide."
"If we are trying to account for mobilization, we have to ask, under what conditions do outraged forms of knowing lead to social mobilizations and movements? So awareness alone does not suffice, and neither does outrage."
"There is no binary division to be made between what one says and what one does not say; we must try to determine the different ways of not saying things."
"I try my best to learn from other people's mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change."
"If you're trying to be hip, be hip."
"I don't think there'll ever be a challenge in your life if you don't try out something because you're scared. I think you just need to do it without any thoughts."
"Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops."
"When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake."
"Just try to love, and manifest it. When your heart is open, there is this energy of love that flows in, fulfills everything and somehow transmutes itself into actions."
"I never had an imaginary friend, just imaginary circumstances. I was so into the Indiana Jones movies and I would constantly reenact circumstances. I broke my left arm three times, two of which were me trying to be Indiana Jones."
"We all try to camouflage the monotony. But it takes a lot of energy. To insist on being special all the time. When we're so much like one another anyway. Our triumphs are the same. Our pain. Try for a moment to feel what relief there is in the ordinary."
"I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental."
"God bless America. Let's try to save some of it."
"If I had my life to live over again, I would have waxed less and listened more. ... I would have cried and laughed less while watching television ... and more while watching real life. ... But mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute of it ... look at it and really see it ... try it on ... live it ... exhaust it ... and never give the minute back until there was nothing left of it."
"When a man is going to try and borrow money, it is wise to look prosperous"
"Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you."
"I try to be good at it, whatever part I'm playing - even in my daily life or when the spotlight hits me on the stage to perform - I gotta be alive every second in this world. With or without the applause!"
"What I like to do is treat words as a craftsman does his wood or stone or what-have-you, to hew, carve, mold, coil, polish, and plane them into patterns, sequences, sculptures, fugues of sound expressing some lyrical impulse, some spiritual doubt or conviction, some dimly realized truth I must try to reach and realize."
