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I always had a dream about trying to make a movie that had no dialogue in it, that was just music and pictures. I still… — Paul Thomas Anderson
I am a socialist not because I think it is a perfect system, but half a loaf is better than no bread. The other system… — Swami Vivekananda
I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records. — Boy George
One of the big mistakes Republicans made with the Contract with America is that they tried to do too much too fast, and people revolted… — Dick Gephardt
As we see, this is an illegal state; it is a cancerous entity and the root of all the crises and wars and cannot be… — Hassan Nasrallah
Is to throw together events from my own life, fictionalizing to add color—it’s a pot boiler really, but I think it will show how isolated… — Sylvia Plath
I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players and that's what I tried to do, — Harmon Killebrew
The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything… — John McGahern
I've always tried to be nice to people, so that sort of translates into popularity, I guess. — Andy Richter
I have tried to write stories that go into the underworld of myth and bring out life and fire — where the old world looked… — Catherynne M. Valente
I just tried to build on my failures. — Kevin Costner
If it doesn't look easy it is that we have not tried hard enough yet. — Fred Astaire
I have tried, with little success, to get some of my friends to understand my amazement that the abstraction of integers for counting is both… — Richard Hamming
Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us-simpatico dudes that we are-while playing this complicated song together, might somehow be free… — Dave Hickey
If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with bank-notes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coal-mines which are then filled up to the… — John Maynard Keynes
In 1964, I tried to convince my grandfather, who was active in the New York City firefighters union, to vote for Barry Goldwater over Lyndon… — Joe Lhota
I've tried plenty of telephones. I tried to get into the Samsung Galaxy and the Blackberry, but the iPhone is just too easy to use.… — Avicii
I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on… — Jesse Helms
Being ruled by a depraved poet-king who is sacrified each spring is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. — Tim Pratt
I grew up in a food-obsessed Italian family, so food was always front and center in my life. I was a food obsessed person who… — Nadia Giosia
I tried to get a tan but I’m black already, — 2 Chainz
I think because I came into journalism by way of the Black Panther Party - and not J-school or a corporate bourgeois institution - I… — Mumia Abu-Jamal
One night I had an idea while I was at the movies: to photograph the film itself. I tried to imagine photographing an entire feature… — Hiroshi Sugimoto
I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding. — Dave Barry
I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work. — Toby Young

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