Quotes with tried

Quotes 141 till 155 of 155.

  • Bono We actually aren't able to play other people's songs. The one Stones song we tried to play was Jumpin' Jack Flash. It was really bad. So we started writing our own — it was easier.
    Rolling Stone interview (2005)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Henry S. Haskins We condemn a sin before we have even tried it.
    Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 134
    Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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  • Abdul Kalam We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Buck Owens We were sharecroppers - we were a little bit of everything. We farmed and tried to make something.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Bruce Babbitt Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln What is conservatism? It is not adherence to the old and tried, but against the new and untried?
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Mae West When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Bob Parsons When I started Go Daddy, I tried many things - like building networks and selling education - and none of it panned out. I lost millions of dollars the first couple of years. I made a lot of wrong turns, but that's the process of being successful in business.
    Bob Parsons
    American entrepreneur, billionaire, and philanthropist (1950 - )
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  • Bill Clinton 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.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Ben Huh When people call something a 'fail,' it's because you tried to accomplish something but didn't make it. If you're just walking down the street and something bad just happens to you, that's not really a fail on your part. You might call that situation a fail.
    Ben Huh
    South-Korean-American internet entrepreneur (1979 - )
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  • Mae West Whenever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven't tried before.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Amelia Earhart Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.
    Amelia Earhart
    American aviation pioneer and author (1897 - 1937)
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  • Beau Willimon You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Jane Fonda You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast which is what I tried to do.
    Jane Fonda
    American actress, writer, political activist and former fashion model (1937 - )
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  • Barry Manilow 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.
    Barry Manilow
    American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (1943 - )
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