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I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain.
Our life comes in segments, and we have to understand that we can have it all if we're not trying to do it all at once.
Each composer has their own language, and I try to meet the challenges, even if at first sight, they appear impossible.
When you have two people, separate beings, trying to share one life together. That's always going to have difficulties.
Small birds throw seeds out of the feeder; large birds pick them up off the ground, but the squirrels try to muscle in.
The thing I like about the band [Dead Child] is that there's no pretense. We aren't even trying to be artists or poets.
There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before.
I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's brilliant.
I don't hang out with the Hollywood cool people. I'm not out trying to make friends with people because they're famous.
Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people's stories and trying to make a magazine article.
It’s funny now, trying to socialise with people. There’s this cautiousness about people which I just find really weird.
I do like match play. I like trying to match an opponent shot for shot. It's a challenge. And it's something different.
To be world champion brings fame. The fame brings good things and bad things too. I try to take the good with calmness.
It's very hard to get out of this hold, that's why you either have to scoot backwards, move forwards, or try to get up.
We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.
Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.
Whenever I play with him , I usually try to make it a foursome - the President, myself, a paramedic and a faith healer.
I try to pace myself and not work for the sake of working and stick to what inspired me prior to receiving recognition.
Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.
I try to avoid calling myself a poet because I think that's something someone else has to call you. It's like bragging.
The first mistake is trying to explain morality to a terrorist. Like trying to teach a rock to drive. It is impossible.
I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.
We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.
I'm not going to get into a debate over the non-essentials. I won't try to change other denominations. Why be divisive?
I'm focused on myself and on what I've got to do...I'm just trying to get back on track and keep this positive mindset.
I don't have to live the roller coaster other people live with my life. It's hard because people try to have an effect.
When I'm in emotional pain, I usually embrace the pain, cry, and let it all out. Then I try to look on the bright side.
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
...We should try to link our personal lives with the cause for which we struggle, with the cause of building communism.
If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.
If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.
To put it in my music, that's not the message I am trying to send out. That's not the type of artist I am trying to be.
I thank God every day. That's all I can do. That, and try to help all those other guys who are trying to do what I did.
I think that I'd like to try to be a superwoman and have kids and work, so we'll see if I can actually accomplish that.
When I got home, I was trying to figure out how to be home. Like, be home in a sense that had nothing to do with music.
The goal is not necessarily to succeed but to keep trying, to be the kind of person who has ideas and see them through.
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.
I always try to do true endings and that's where I got into trouble always because Hollywood wants to do happy endings.
I like to keep a uniform - wear a blazer, try to keep the same colour pants; very tailored, very fitted but still edgy.
First up, the lost and found has gone missing. It itself, is lost. So please try not to lose anything until we find it.
I'm not trying to change the face of hip-hop music. I'm trying to make my records and always take the next step for me.
I try not to listen to a lot of music when I'm starting the recording process, because it can be so subtly influential.
See, Josh, that's what you do when someone slaps you in the face. So the next time it happens to you, try to retaliate.
So are we still trying to end racial politics or are there just too many advantages to some political parties for that?
I'm not interested in trying to have people who might like other kinds of music follow me. I don't want to please them.
Are you trying to get run over by a cab? Don't be ridiculous. We could never get a cab that easily in this neighborhood
Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.
Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.
It is not enough simply to try to resist evil or empty our lives of sin. We must also fill our lives with righteousness
That [Louisiana culture] was all very new to me. I read books and watched documentaries, just trying to immerse myself.