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1162 I Tried quotes by 908 unique authors
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Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.
— Josephine Baker
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If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100.…
— Steve Wozniak
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I saw a drummer play once when I was a kid and I thought, that's really cool. You know, you're moving. You're using your arms…
— Bill Kreutzmann
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For the first month, I listened, and I tried very hard not to draw conclusions
— Lou Gerstner
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I just started trying to figure out how to write [something] which was unlike anything anybody had ever seen, and once I felt like I…
— James Frey
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I tried sex once with a woman and that woman was Gala. It was overrated. I tried sex once with a man and that man…
— Salvador Dali
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When I am high I couldn't worry about money of I tried. So I don't. The money will come from from somewhere; I am entitled;…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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My 'Movember' moustache was never going to be as big as Nigel Mansell's, but I tried my best. The amazing thing is that when you…
— Jenson Button
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I tried to think of my knowledge, but it was a squirrel's heap of winter nuts. There was no strength in my knowledge any more…
— Stephen Vincent Benet
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I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking…
— John Maynard Keynes
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In my early work, I tried to hide my personality, my psychological state, my emotions. This was partly due to my feelings about myself and…
— Jasper Johns
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Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the…
— Michael P. Anderson
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What's the single most important thing to learn from an economics course today? Â What I tried to leave my students with is the view…
— Lawrence Summers
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I reckon I tried everything on the old apple, but salt and pepper and chocolate sauce topping.
— Gaylord Perry
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I've borne the shame of mother while you bought her off with a present and a treat here and there. God knows how hard I…
— Anzia Yezierska
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I never thought of my work in terms of being radical, although I tried to make it radical- that is, to shift the premise of…
— Nancy Spero
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I tried spinning around in a chair to impress a girl.
— Ray Toro
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I tried sticking a piece of candy up my nose...it ended up getting stuck and the nurse had to get it out.
— Ray Toro
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I tried Zen and Ching, numerology, tarot cards and astrology. I tried to look back into the Bible, and could not find anything. At this…
— Cat Stevens
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When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God, why was I here? What was my purpose? Surely, it…
— Wilma Rudolph
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Having been to Europe and working and traveling there, the restaurants my wife and I remember were always off the beaten trail restaurants. So I…
— Todd English
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When I tried to draw near, you dissolved into air before my lips could touch you....
— George Sand
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I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast.
— Paul Desmond
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I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I…
— Daniel Ek
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Well, I went through some emotionally abusive relationships and allowed myself to not be properly respected as a lady, as a human being even, though…
— Gloria Gaynor
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