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"I like to wear classic silhouettes and add a punch to it. I'll wear a high-waist legging and a super-crop top or a see-through top with a nice bra underneath. And I just always try to mix it up with heels or something."
"I wanted to get really fit. I wanted to lose some weight. So I've been doing Pilates and yoga, trying to lean out my body so I won't be bulky."
"It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth."
"I don't try to hide sex in my music. Music is very sexual. I don't hide it."
"The future is only scary if we try to avoid it."
"It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God."
"Don’t keep your head turned backwards. Look ahead and move on. You are trying to walk forward with your head turned backward. This is why you feel miserable. Just let go!"
"I just try to show everything I represent and I represent God so I want to put that in my music."
"Why, that's like being told to go up in the hills to find lions, only you do not know whether there are any lions, but if there are, they may be hunting you, and they may be disguised as bushes. Oh, and if you find any lions, try not to let them eat you before you can tell where they are. -Elayne"
"The only failure is not trying."
"Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal."
"I'm not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price."
"This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on."
"I try to eliminate as much dialogue as possible, and I guess Rambo is my really best experiment with how to eliminate dialogue."
"So you got rid of your astonishment that someone could write so much more dynamically than you. You stopped cherishing your aloneness and poetic differentness to your delicately flat little bosom. You said: she's to good to forget. How about making her a friend and competitor — you could learn alot from her. So you'll try. So maybe she'll laugh in your face. So maybe she'll beat you hollow in the end. So anyhow, you'll try, and maybe, possibly, she can stand you. Here's hoping!"
"Too often, parents force their kids into becoming something they want them to become rather than trying unpack the treasure chest God wants them to become."
"You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist."
"Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it."
"People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try."
"Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would."
