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  • I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
  • I've tried as much as possible to avoid the standard nine-to-five thing. I've tried to organize my life so that I can move around, change the rhythm and the tempo.
  • Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
  • Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn't work out. But maybe because it didn't work out, that's why I ended up on 'Breaking Bad;' I don't know.
  • When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.
  • You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
  • I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!
  • You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.
  • To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
  • They certainly did. They tried to make her look like a "nut case" and they succeeded to some extent.
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  • Bill Watterson Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • John Wooden Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Henry David Thoreau As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • George Washington Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Bill Bryson Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Bill Bailey I tried to like it. For me, it was like being smacked around the head by a piece of IKEA furniture: it hurts, but you've got to admire the workmanship.
    Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Carol Gilligan Implicitly adopting the male life as the norm, they have tried to fashion women out of a masculine cloth. It all goes back to Adam and Eve a story which shows... that if you make a woman out of man, you are bound to get into trouble.
    Carol Gilligan
    American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
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  • Theodore Roosevelt It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Bennet Omalu No, no, I don't watch football. The last time I tried watching was the last Super Bowl. The problem I have is, you know, the graphic nature of my imagination; when I watch and see them meeting head onto head, helmet onto helmet, what flashes through my mind is what's going on in their brains. It's like torture to me.
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • Bill Watterson The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Winston Churchill You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Erasmus Darwin A fool... is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.
    Letter (1792)
    Erasmus Darwin
    English physician, grandfather of Charles Darwin (1731 - 1802)
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  • Samuel Butler A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Ariel Sharon A lie should be tried in a place where it will attract the attention of the world.
    Ariel Sharon
    Israeli general and politician (1928 - 2014)
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  • Georges Clemenceau A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
    Georges Clemenceau
    French physician and politician (1841 - 1929)
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  • Bobby Hull All I've done all my life is just tried to better the game for our players and for those people watching.
    Bobby Hull
    Canadian ice hockey player (1939 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bill Murray All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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