Quotes with tried

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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: ''A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.''
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Albert Einstein Anyone who has never made a mistake never tried anything new .
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Carlo Rubbia Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
    Carlo Rubbia
    Italian physicist and inventor (1934 - )
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  • Angela Davis As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Ovid As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Carlos Slim At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.
    Carlos Slim
    Mexican business magnate, investor and philanthropist (1940 - )
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  • Alexander Pope Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Alexander Pope Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Mae West Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Brendan Fraser Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good.
    Brendan Fraser
    American and Canadian actor (1969 - )
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  • Bob Schieffer But here's the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can't. I can't even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don't get it.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Carter Burwell Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors.
    Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • Billy Collins Cummings' career as a writer - and a painter - was as wobbly as his love life. He tried his hand at playwriting, satirical essays, and even a dance scenario for Lincoln Kirsten.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • George Edward Woodberry Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
    George Edward Woodberry
    American poet and literary critic (1855 - 1930)
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Jean Kerr Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.
    Jean Kerr
    American writer, playwright (1922 - 2003)
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  • Samuel Beckett Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Camille Paglia Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men's relationships with women.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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