Tried Quotes
4144 Tried quotes by 2854 unique authors
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I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I didn't think that…
— Brian Setzer
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I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.
— Brian Setzer
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People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.
— Assata Shakur
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I have friends who've tried suicide many times and haven't succeeded. I myself made an attempt, so I had a connection with that sort of…
— Judy Collins
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I have tried, in all the ways I can, to make timeless music.
— Judy Collins
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My eyes has been my camera taking pictures of the world and my songs has been my messages that I tried to scatter across the…
— Woody Guthrie
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I had headaches for over 30 years until I tried chiropractic. They have completely disappeared.
— Melvin Belli
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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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I want to be remembered as one who tried.
— Dorothy Height
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Brothers and sisters, as good as our previous experience may be, if we stop asking questions, stop thinking, stop pondering, we can thwart the revelations…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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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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The Catholic Church - it's so difficult because I don't want say anything offensive but it makes me very angry that religious leaders from this…
— Emma Thompson
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Most Kabbalists were theorists who were interested only in pure meditation. But there were so-called 'practical Kabbalists' who tried to apply the power of the…
— Neal Stephenson
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It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A…
— David Brin
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The pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second — comics, picnic tables, men’s trousers, celebrities, shower curtains,…
— Andy Warhol
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But I shall give less thought to the future, I shall work in the present. I feel such work is within my power. For I…
— Georges Bernanos
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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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Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.
— Art Linkletter
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The only reason runaway global warming seems unstoppable is that we have not yet tried to stop it.
— Gregg Easterbrook
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One of my patients told me that when she tried to tell her story people often interrupted her to tell her that they once had…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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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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Although we didn't have much when I was growing up in Split, Croatia, my parents always tried to ensure that my sister and I had…
— Goran Ivanisevic
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In my art I have tried to explain to myself life and its meaning. I have also tried to help others to clarify their lives.
— Edvard Munch
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All I know is I've tried my best.
— Tiger Woods
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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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