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People that were in my life for a long time turned sinister and tried to control me, and all kinds of weird stuff happened. But… — Lisa Marie Presley
I dyed my hair red when I was ten and when I was 11 - in my goth period - I dyed it black and… — Florence Welch
I was no longer troubled when he pulled out a machete in a crowded bar, tried to pick up schoolgirls, or threatened to scalp us,… — Tahir Shah
Each of us from the seance stood alone. Like so many pillars of salt, we had tried to look back and failed. And in the… — Joan Lowery Nixon
Now everything was changed. She walked about with cautious, anxious steps, staring constantly at the ground, on the lookout for things that crept and crawled.… — Tove Jansson
I have taken your advice, and the names used are anode cathode anions cations and ions; the last I shall have but little occasion for.… — Michael Faraday
I first came into the labor force in 1941 when the minimum wage was 40 cents an hour, and that was my first job. And… — Jimmy Carter
The nature of faith is that it must be tried. — Oswald Chambers
My father left me with a saying that I've carried my entire life and tried to pass on to our kids: 'Tough times don't last,… — Curt Schilling
No matter what you've gone through in the past, no matter how many setbacks you've suffered or who or what has tried to thwart your… — Joel Osteen
I tried living as a very nice person, but there’s no need to be nice .. you have to be mean to survive — Kim Heechul
As an investor-entrepreneur, I’ve always tried to be contrarian, to go against the crowd, to identify opportunities in places where people are not looking. — Peter Thiel
All I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time. — Robert Penn Warren
Everybody seems to have given up hope of trying. I haven't. It isn't easy and it isn't supposed to be, but I'm accomplishing something. How… — Terry Fox
I had a woman breakdown and cry when she met me which was difficult to deal with because immediately when someone starts to cry, you… — Elijah
Treating ourselves like appliances that can be unplugged and plugged in again at will or cars that stop and start with the twist of a… — William Bridges
They tried stoning me, my dear. It did not work… — Barnabas
I always tried to hide the fact that I was an athlete. I just wanted to be normal. — Lindsay Davenport
They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin. Adultery is responsible for breaking up more… — Al Sharpton
I have tried to put myself in the position of someone seeing economics for the first time. My goal is to emphasize the material that… — Greg Mankiw
I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best. — Mark Twain
I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything. — Cecily von Ziegesar
I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth. — Emily St. John Mandel
I was too much of a victim of the model I created. I tried Change to Win and helping Obama, and then I just ran… — Andy Stern
I've tried it a couple of times over the years, mainly because the thing Ubuntu did so well was make Debian usable. I always felt that… — Linus Torvalds

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