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"Everybody goes through their life in different ways. I definitely am having my journey. It evolves and changes. At some moments, I feel totally off center and trying to find my way back."
"Not because I'm trying to be fabulous, but I love those big crazy Jackie O shades."
"Every day I am trying to improve my life."
"I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell."
"Don't we all just really try to fake it well?"
"Our policy is to concentrate holdings. We try to avoid buying a little of this or that when we are only lukewarm about the business or its price. When we are convinced as to attractiveness, we believe in buying worthwhile amounts."
"In interactions with others, instead of trying to be right, why don't we try being kind?"
"As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!"
"A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity."
"I am trying like Klee, to create something that will have a life of its own, that can put me in real danger, a danger which I willingly take on myself."
"The attempt and not the deed confounds us."
"We're still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week."
"If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future."
"We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges"
"... painting a picture is like fighting a battle; and trying to paint a picture is, I suppose, like trying to fight a battle. It is, if anything, more exciting than fighting it successfully. But the principle is the same."
"A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint."
"There's a tacit agreement between myself and the audience that I will entertain them when they buy their ticket, and I've been the one that has screwed that up. Once in while I indulge myself and try something else, and I keep my fingers crossed that it will come out good and there'll be enough people who will enjoy it, but that doesn't often happen."
"I am afraid that those comments go back to the late 80's. At that time I was a skeptic - the argument based on Koch's postulates to try to distinguish between cause and association. Today I would regard the success of the many antiviral agents which lower the virus titers (to be expected) and also resolve the failure of the immune system (only expected if the virus is the cause of the failure) as a reasonable proof of the causation argument ."
"That I was not dueling with the king, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact."
"I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write."
