"I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg."
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"If you're not making some mistakes, it probably means you're not trying hard enough."
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"I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion."
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"We try to find chemistry; we don't do a lot of situational baseball."
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"Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words."
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"It's good to leave your room super-messy when you're away. Whoever tries to break into your room will thought it has already been ransacked."
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"Politically, [Albert Camus] was in favour of a federation, and effectively he considered that like South Africa today (or as they are trying to do), there should be a mixed population with equal rights, the same rights for the Arab and the French populations, as well as all the other races living there."
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"September tries its best to have us forget summer."
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"I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself."
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"I'm a natural born show off. I love performing, and at school we had a really good music scene and an even better drama scene. When I got to university, I played in bands and did sketch stuff and it was always about coming up with material, which is why I never really practised and have no chops!! When I left uni, I carried on playing and trying out at stand-up."
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"I'm not trying to disrespect anybody by saying this - I'm not sure I feel any interaction with Asian America in any collective sense. - It's like, when you're telling me this right now, my reaction is, Really? Asian America knows about me?"
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"Cease trying to work everything out with your minds, it will get you nowhere."
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"Trying to prioritize among things we're unlikely to do is pretty fruitless."
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"Let me know what your problem is, and I will try to make it more difficult for you."
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"To atone, I teach and try to set an example... I love spreading this stuff around. Just because it's trite doesn't mean it isn't right. In fact, I like to say, 'If it's trite, it's right.'"
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"Financial institutions make us nervous when they're trying to do well."
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"I never really write the jokes. I just sit down over a week or two and try to figure out what I want to talk about. Once I narrow that down, then I start working on the material, like "How do I make this stuff funny?""
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"Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank."
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"Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious."
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"Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it."
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