"The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose."
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"If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it."
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"I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going."
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"Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals."
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"I don't ever try to make a serious social comment."
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"Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society."
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"He tries to show each person how much they are capable of achieving."
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"Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it."
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"When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works."
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"The sad part is that all we're trying to do is not feel that underlying uneasiness. The sadder part is that we proceed in such a way that the uneasiness only gets worse. The message here is that the only way to ease our pain is to experience it fully. Learn to stay. Learn to stay with uneasiness, learn to stay with the tightening, learn to stay with the itch and urge of shenpa, so that the habitual chain reaction doesn't continue to rule our lives, and the patterns that we consider unhelpful don't keep getting stronger as the days and months and years go by."
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"Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is you or me or whoever we are right now, just as we are. That’s the ground, that’s what we study, that’s what we come to know with tremendous curiosity and interest."
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"We're not trying to be something we aren't; rather, we're reconnecting with who we are."
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"I try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don't see enough of that."
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"It's vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do."
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"If there's a man on second, I'm trying to get him in with a base hit. The doubles and homers will come. Sooner or later they'll go out naturally. I'm just trying not to do too much."
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"Lyrically, I could be so much sharper. Melodically, I could be so much stickier. Musically, I could have so much more texture. So I'm constantly doing that, trying to find new ways to mix things up."
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"You never know when you're taking a job, ever... but you try to take good scripts. That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available. Even then, it's not [really] in your control. Certainly not in film and TV, because there are so many other elements. You just have to take control of your own performance."
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"I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself."
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"Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes"
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"Don't be so busy trying to make a living that you're too busy to make a life."
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