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Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.
Somebody threw a book at President Obama. If you're trying to scare a president by throwing a book at him, you're one president too late.
Do not judge others. Be your own judge and you will be truly happy. If you will try to judge others, you are likely to burn your fingers.
A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.
The greatest wonder is never being able to know what will happen next. No matter how hard you try, the future will always be ahead of you.
A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can give us what He wants.
What we are trying to do is to create a new business paradigm, simply showing that business can have a human face and a social conscience.
I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them what they can and can't do with their bodies.
Adrian frowned. 'Is that a noose?' 'It's a tie!' I cried, trying not to feel offended. He laughed, clearly delighted at this. 'My mistake.
Dealing w/ Hamas is like dealing w/ a crazy woman who’s trying to kill u – u can only hold her wrists so long before you have to slap her.
I think we, sometimes, try to fill a void with so many other things that we make the wound deeper & prevent it from ever healing properly.
The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.
I was trying my best to just stop that ball from going over the fence, I'd sacrifice my body if I have to. I've done that my whole career.
[Voters] are trying to make up their mind on who has a better plan for the economy, whose presidency would more positively impact my life?
I learned the importance of being nonjudgmental, taking what happens and trying to make it work.That's something you should apply to life.
Stand-up is every man for himself; you learn from hanging out at these clubs and watching other guys, and then trying not to be like them.
Hate is a draining bottomless pit from whence nothing good or of any value can come. Try to eat a balanced diet. Guys only want one thing.
Try and stop your thoughts. Be patient and then the kundalini will flow through you and bring about substantial changes in your awareness.
I've been able to see the world many times over. The thing I've learned is less is more. I travel as light as possible. I try to carry on.
Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.
I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.
I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it
You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.
What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives
I think people have certain preconceived notions of certain people that they've never met. And so, that's sort of what I try to work from.
Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.
There are no rules when it comes to love. I just try to let love surprise me because you never know who you’re going to fall in love with.
And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones.
You could spend your life trying to uncover all the treasures in New Orleans and not even scratch the surface. It's such an amazing place.
If you pivot, do it fully and with conviction. The worst thing is to try to do a bit of the old and the new-it's hard to kill your babies.
If you try to make the Democrats be what they are not, and never will be, you will end up being more like what the Democrats actually are.
It's really annoying when you're trying to get to know someone and she doesn't pay attention to you because she's obsessed with her phone.
I don't tend to look at myself through the rearview mirror where dates are concerned. I have blinders on the past and try to look forward.
Where is Wood?" said Harry, suddenly realizing he wasn't there. "Still in the showers," said Fred. "We think he's trying to drown himself.
Yo! Deadheads," he yelled, waving his sword to taunt them. "Nice try, but you're messing with Benny-freaking-Imura, zombie killer. Booyah!
I would recommend, initially, if you are trying to increase your personal power level, to meditate on the navel center, not the lower two.
The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.
I also try to read all of my fan mail. A lot of them send me candy, which I'm not allowed to eat 'cause my mom says it might be poisonous.
There are patterns because we try to find them. A desperate attempt at order because we can't face the terror that it might all be random.
My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.
That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out.
I remind myself everyday just how lucky I am to do what I love! I feel so fortunate and I'm just trying to take my life one day at a time.
Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.
... I used words without precautions. I wanted to disappear into them, I fled into the bovaryism of the writer trying to create an effect.
It was interesting looking back at the '80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time - the cliché of history repeating itself.
Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God.
Ive always got a novel under way, but if I try to work on it every day, exclusively, I falter. So I always keep more than one thing going.
The Americans are trying to expand their influence in the world, particularly in Europe. They are defending their own interests, not ours.
The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only they knew how to do so.
The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.