Trying Quotes

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If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question… — Noam Chomsky
People try to put ownership on things: 'That's mine, that's my joke.' No such thing. Like if you tripped or stumbled and people go, 'Oh,… — Tommy Chong
So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's… — Deepak Chopra
In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I'd sooner save the energy for something… — Helena Christensen
Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed… — Agatha Christie
I was raised, myself, by extremely strict but also extremely loving Chinese immigrant parents. To this day, I believe that their having high expectations for… — Amy Chua
Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come… — Winston Churchill
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. — Winston Churchill
My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even… — Ted Allen
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double… — Winston Churchill
But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in… — Madonna Ciccone
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it. — Emile M. Cioran
Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over. — Eric Clapton
Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things. — Frank A. Clark
Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy. — Frank A. Clark
If you're trying to get someone who's sick with a fever off of a submarine and it's cold and raining outside, the only way in… — Laurel Clark
I love healthy stuff and junk an equal amount. Whatever I'm craving, I go for it. I'm never trying to lose weight - or gain… — Kelly Clarkson
I try not to date musicians. It's all I've dated. Every guy I've dated is a musician. Obviously, it's not working. — Kelly Clarkson

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