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I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘OK, I’m looking back on my life. I want to minimise the number of… — Jeff Bezos
Even in Madison's day, the practice of gerrymandering for partisan advantage was familiar. In the late seventeen-eighties, there were claims that Patrick Henry had tried… — Jeffrey Toobin
Throughout the Zelda series I've always tried to make players feel like they are in a kind of miniature garden. So, this time also, my… — Shigeru Miyamoto
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
This is basically the last resort. I've been painted into a corner, and now I've sort of got to lay it all out in order… — Corey Clark
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
Without our familiar props, we are faced with just ourselves, a person we do not know, an unnerving stranger with whom we have been living… — Sogyal Rinpoche
I've always tried to play golf with a golf club. I have a hard time driving with my rifle. I mean, 18 is really narrow… — Jack Nicklaus
Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the… — Aaron Levie
That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong. — Aaron Levie
The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried. — Paul Krugman
If one generation is expected to carry an excessive burden on behalf of another, it will seek by every means to avoid it. It will… — Margaret Thatcher
What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second,… — Margaret Thatcher
The Jets tried this whole garbage with Tim Tebow and Mark Sanchez and it got them nowhere, — Donovan McNabb
Whether your name is (Lou) Gehrig or (Cal) Ripken, (Joe) DiMaggio or (Jackie) Robinson, or that of some youngster who picks up his bat or… — Cal Ripken, Jr.
I’ve often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently. — Howard Barker
You're not going to win by automatically going out there. It's hard to know what people really expect of you, and I've never tried to… — Greg Maddux
Here I had tried a straightforward extrapolation of technology, and found myself precipitated over an abyss. It's a problem we face every time we consider… — Vernor Vinge
We've tried to create something that's much more like being at a mountain resort. Many of these types of facilities done in the past paid… — Phil Taylor
I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there. — Nicholas D. Kristof
I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant… — Nicholas D. Kristof
Too often we are scared. Scared of what we might not be able to do. Scared of what people might think if we tried. We… — Barry Sanders
I reckon I tried everything on the old apple, but salt and pepper and chocolate sauce topping. — Gaylord Perry

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