"A fair-minded person tries to see both sides of an argument."
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"Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it."
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"That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible"
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"Anything you do sustainably feels so good that you're a full-on addict as soon as you try it. If you eat only vegetables and fruits that you grow yourself from your garden, or organic food, it tastes so much better and is so much better for you, you can't really go back."
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"I've been using the same editor, thankfully, she's been sticking with me, but I've been doing it full-on guerilla style... I haven't gotten any public sponsor or anything, because I don't want to seem like I'm trying to sell any particular thing."
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"The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation."
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"I would rather fail trying than succeed at doing nothing."
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"Nothing ruins the mood during foreplay more than the recurring image of your sixty-five-year-old homeroom teacher trying to stretch a condom over a cucumber."
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"Despite all of the ghastliness in the world, human beings are made for goodness. The ones that are held in high regard are not militarily powerful, nor even economically prosperous. They have a commitment to try and make the world a better place."
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"I've spent about that amount of time trying to tell the public that there was purpose in... my business, my career and the roller coaster ride... how the people I associated with worked together."
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"Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic."
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"If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it."
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"Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something."
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"I just try to be honest and true to the character and play the part."
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"Smile, breathe, and go slowly. Thich Nhat Hanh Don't try to steer the river."
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"When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff, or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?"
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"I got lost somehow, began staring up her legs. I was always a leg man. It was the first thing I saw when I was born. But then I was trying to get out. Ever since I have been working in the other direction and with pretty lousy luck."
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"If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is."
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"Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?"
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"The thing I try to get across to the writers - and I do a lot of writing, too - is that when I do stand-up, nothing I talk about is funny. Everything is really sad and tragic and then I make it funny."
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