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The way your parents try to talk to you about politics and pull you to their side, that's an exciting moment in your family.
I try to look at what KG does, what Tim Duncan does, what Amare Stoudamire does ... I compare and evaluate myself with them.
In terms of my own work ethic, I've always been a determined person. When I'm focused on something, I try to see it through.
As an actor, it's always fun when you're able to feel like there's freedom to explore things and try out jokes and be funny.
Do not try to make the gospel tasteful to carnal minds. Do not hide the offense of the cross, lest you make it of no effect.
I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.
American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas.
Boys, don't try to find a woman as wonderful as your mother to marry because if you do, you'll stay single your whole lives.
It's a good idea to pay attention to the world and try to understand how it works rather than how you would like it to work.
I love the process of working with people and having things going on, all the time, and just trying to trust your instincts.
I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and drama.
The conservative Republican governors tend to be more oriented toward trying to work with Democrats and getting things done.
But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.
If you try desperately to hang on to something that used to be a success for you, it's going to go away. You have to change.
I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.
My job is to try to advance American foreign policy, to try to advance the president's agenda on democracy and human rights.
We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.
Trying harder doesn’t work for me. Slowly I’ve learned to pray for God’s help and He has become my greatest love and desire.
My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that's a lovely addition.
I just sit there and try to think of stuff that I could do that's a little different but still not step outside of who I am.
If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.
As with most things in my life, I believe you should try to enjoy yourself and never feel like you are a slave to a routine.
We were made to be human beings here, and when people try to be anything else, they generally get into some sort of scrapes.
I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.
We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.
When everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born.
I try to apply the organic concept to my clothes and bedding as well. There's nothing like swimming in organic cotton sheets.
I try to incorporate faith every day, to not remind myself of past failures, to learn how to forgive and to trust the future.
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.
You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that's left for you or to make one of your own.
Films were never on my agenda, may be it was written in my destiny. And since I am here, I would like to give it my best try.
Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy.
I'm not in the business of satisfying everybody. I'm in the business of trying to satisfy the people who elected me governor.
If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.
A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.
I realize over the years my music has started becoming more like country and it's not necessarily something I'm trying to do.
Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems.
It's part of my nature. I get excited when trying out new stuff, whether it be an idea or equipment. It stimulates my juices.
The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.
I try to stay incognito as much as I can. I don't go places that people would expect to see me because I'm trying to lay low.
I certainly understand very much what it's (like when) an expense comes up and you're trying to figure out how to pay for it.
The more you try to control something, the more it controls you. Free yourself, and let things take their own natural course.
To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable.
I try to write from a really honest place when I write pop music and carry the song into a more deep and more symbolic visual
I'm taking my time trying to transition because the Aaron Carter you saw back then - now [I'm] a completely different person.
I wouldn't venture to say which kind of sin is more prevalent. I wouldn't even want to try to characterize certain 'circles.'
You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.
You have to kind of roll with the punches. That's why I think work begets work to a certain degree. I just try and keep busy.
If we can just try every day to be the best versions of ourselves, we are offering to the world the best addition to society.
You never know how a single interaction with a person might affect their life, so you must constantly try to be at your best.