Quotes with trying

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  • Caspar Weinberger Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word.
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  • Iain Banks Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
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    Iain Banks
    Scottish author (1954 - 2013)
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  • Bryant Gumbel Scott, as you and I both know, a popular move these days is to make a titillating charge and then have the media create the frenzy. Given Kenneth Starr's track record, should we suspect that he's trying to do with innuendo that which he has been unable to do with evidence?
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Carrie Fisher So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I just thought he was trying to get out of treating me. But he was also responding to the chaotic nature of my life.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow old. After 215 years of trying, we have finally discovered a special interest that includes 100 percent of the population. Now we can vote ourselves rich.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Bill Gates Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly' [...] Their best approach, so far, has been to take all the old brochures, and stamp the words, 'user-friendly' on the cover.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Harry S. Truman Some of the Presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great Presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Robert C. Edwards Somehow the people who do as they please seem to get along just about as well as those who are always trying to please others.
    Robert C. Edwards
    American author (1927 - 2013)
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  • Bruno Mars Someone told me something that stuck with me: 'You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.' I've been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I'm just backtracking and trying to get back up there.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • B. B. King Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I'm trying to do more. When I'm singing, I don't want you to just hear the melody. I want you to relive the story, because most of the songs have pretty good storytelling.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Guy Davenport Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
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  • Bryce Harper Spirituality is something that makes you who you are on and off the field. It's something you try and live by. The way you play is one thing, but the way you act is a little different. You're just trying to be a good person, the best you can be, on and off the field.
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Beverley Mitchell Still, it's tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career.
    Beverley Mitchell
    American actress and singer (1981 - )
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  • Booker T. Washington Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Casey Stengel Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Brad Feld Taking a great new idea with an entrepreneurial team that wants to create something significant and trying to build a real company is what is interesting.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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