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My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent… — Edward Kennedy
I was after a set of pictures, so that when people looked at them they would say, ‘This is war’-that the people who were in… — W. Eugene Smith
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
Better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all. Whoever came up with that phrase I wanted his greasy head on… — Sean Paul
When I first tried to get a record deal for my original music, labels didn’t understand what these instruments were meant to be doing — Suzanne Ciani
We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education. — Joycelyn Elders
No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face of a stern… — Roger Penrose
Some ghosts tried to be showy. These were the kinds to avoid. — Lesley Howarth
If you have a sane economy, and by sane economy I mean one which is not addicted to debt, not a Ponzi economy, then the… — Steve Keen
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
I couldn’t bear to think about the proper future, so I just tried to make things better for the next twenty minutes or so, over… — Nick Hornby
When God sets His heart on you, you will be tried often. But the longer and harder your affliction, the more deeply God has set… — David Wilkerson
Christianity is not being weighed in the balance and found wanting. It's being tried, found difficult and rejected! — Leonard Ravenhill
I tried spinning around in a chair to impress a girl. — Ray Toro
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
Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better? Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them? Why… — Carol S. Dweck
My mother told me I said to her, at age three, 'I'm going to go to Italy and get my father in a tractor.' 'You've… — Roger Waters
Well, I know that I'll never forget that, but also I won't forget the hundreds of people who sent me letters, telegrams, and postcards during… — Gil Hodges
About 1911 I had the idea of making for my son, who had just been born, a blanket composed of bits of fabric like those… — Sonia Delaunay
What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony of… — Jacques Attali
For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding.… — Jacques Attali
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
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
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
Thinking about how disturbingly herdlike people become in so many different contexts—mimetic theory forces you to think about that, which is knowledge that’s generally suppressed… — Peter Thiel

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