"You can either be a vain movie star, or you can try to shed some light on different aspects of the human condition."
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"I wish I hadn't cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears !"
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"He that tries to seize an opportunity after it has passed him by is like one who sees it approach but will not go to meet it."
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"Now that I've got kids, it's become really important for me on the health front to try to buy as much organic produce as possible."
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"I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does exist, and then to see what it is."
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"The unknown is not measurable by the known. Time cannot measure the timeless, the eternal, that immensity which has no beginning and no end... when we try to measure something which is not measurable, we only get caught in words."
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"Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don't limit myself."
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"I recommend that you try a little mental floss."
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"Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps the present hour Serves but to brighten all our future days."
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"Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time."
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"I couldn't care less what anybody says about me. I live my life, especially my personal life, strictly for myself... Whatever you do, you're going to be criticized. I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you."
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"You try to avoid the mistakes you made in the past."
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"I try to spend my time on areas that I think are important for the future, and where I think I can add value."
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"When I try to describe myself to God I say, 'Lord, remember me? Black? Female? Six-foot tall? The writer?' And I almost always get God's attention."
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"Isn't (life) all about trying?"
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"When we try to describe the truth with words, we distort it and it's no longer truth--it's our story. The story may be true for us, but that doesn't mean it's true for anyone else."
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"I think what I'm trying to build is a reputation for evolving and for change. Because of the rate of information that we have access to at this point, it's almost hard not to be ever-growing."
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"The things that are ours cannot be given away, or taken away, or lost. We break our hearts, all of us, trying to keep things that do not belong to us — and to which we have no right."
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"If you are trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it's false."
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"When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg."
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