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  • My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.
  • My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we're living in, I put my faith in those people.
  • There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.
  • The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.
  • Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so we're just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.
  • American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without studying Freud, women have made nothing but mud pies.
  • When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.
  • Not a red rose or a satin heart. I give you an onion. It is a moon wrapped in brown paper. It promises light like the careful undressing of love... I am trying to be truthful.
  • People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.
  • To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.
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  • Douglas Adams A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Voltaire Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Rich Cook Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
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  • Anthony Hecht A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.
    Anthony Hecht
    American poet (1923 - 2004)
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  • Camille Paglia American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without studying Freud, women have made nothing but mud pies.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Luis Bunuel Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
    Luis Bunuel
    Spanish director (1900 - 1983)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant How can I be sure I’ve succeeded, if I can’t remember what I was trying to do?
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Umberto Eco I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
    De slinger van Foucault (2007) 60
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Virginia Woolf It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Paul E. Little Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, ''Now cut that out!'' That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!
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    American Christian author
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  • Earl Wilson Somebody figured it out - we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.
    Earl Wilson
    American columnist (1907 - 1987)
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  • Bill Watterson That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Hannah Whitall Smith The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
    Hannah Whitall Smith
     
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  • Confucius We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Harry S. Truman Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch 'Benedict' means 'blessed.' My parents liked the sound of the name and felt slightly blessed because they'd been trying for a child for a very long time.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Bo Burnham 'Words, Words, Words' was very much its title. It's just words, words, words and trying to show that I can pack as much material into an hour as I possibly could word count-wise.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • Douglas Adams A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2012) 690
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • B. F. Skinner A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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