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You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.
These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day.
It's misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman's sexual presentation of self. I consider this an issue that is bigger than (one) film.
No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.
This is embarrassing and personal, but once a month, since I was twelve years old, I go to my favorite jewelry store and try on my dream ring.
What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.
Men give the same lines to different women for the same reason women wear the same perfume for different men; we all try the things that work.
Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic.
Try to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don't know about. Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.'
I try not to diet because it never really works for me, if I tell myself I can't eat something then I tend to want to eat everything in sight.
Keeping your body in shape is a spiritual discipline. Its not just about losing a few pounds, wanting to live longer, or trying to look nicer.
I'm really happy I'm me because if I wasn't I'd be scared. If you want that Number One spot you need to listen to my album and try to beat it.
And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.
Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don't try to imitate anybody else's success. Figure out how to do it for yourself with yourself.
Are you appalled at existing conditions? Don't waste your energy trying to change conditions from without! Change the Human Heart from within.
I wanted to get really fit. I wanted to lose some weight. So I've been doing Pilates and yoga, trying to lean out my body so I won't be bulky.
The [IBJJF] medal has zero value. It means as much as this tablecloth right here, but people still kill themselves to try to get those medals.
Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.
I try to tell young people to get in shape now, because it's easier. If you're 30 and want to drop 10 pounds, all you have to do is just walk.
Everyone's so timid and afraid to insult anybody, but in the end, it's like we're all trying to please everyone. In the end, we please no one.
Actually, I love trying to figure out why certain books become hits while others, which may be just as good, have trouble finding an audience.
Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
I sort of plunged into filmmaking. I decided I'd jump off the deep end, so I started thinking about what kind of a movie I should try to make.
We should respect each other as rational beings by trying to achieve our goals through reason and persuasion rather than threats and coercion.
The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.
If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.
Ultimately, the reward is the process - the process of photographing and discovering and trying to understand why and what am I photographing.
I don't look at what people do with their homes in terms of money, but the social and personal value of what they're trying to do and achieve.
Pushing the envelope' sort of implies that you're inside the envelope with everyone else, and you're trying to find the edges on the outsides.
I guess that would have been 1968. I was a freshman in college and I wasn't writing good poems, but I was at least trying to write poems then.
Every script has things that would draw me away or draw me towards it. But I just try and choose as wisely as possible - when I get to choose.
For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.
Don’t try to capture a man in one synthetic portrait, but rather in lots of snapshots taken at different times and in different circumstances.
I'm not trying to denounce the visual past. It just seems impossible to me to be able to keep making the same image that I made six years ago.
You can't stop me in bump. And you definitely can't stop me playing off. You just try to contain me and stop me from getting a lot of catches.
What we're going to do is try to get TSA out of the human resources and personnel business and into the security business to connect the dots.
Aaron Spelling kept trying to bring vampires about, and I feel badly that it happened so much later. He was ahead of his time, in that regard.
Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one.
And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space.
My sister accommodates me, never reproaches me with her doctrine, never tries to change me. She accepts and loves me, despite our differences.
People are interested in science, but they don't always know they're interested in science, and so I try to find a way to get them interested.
Some see risk as a reason not to try. Some see it as an obstacle to overcome. The risk is the same; to try or not depends on your perspective.
I stay away from the elf roles; I stay away from playing a leprechaun. All the roles I try to do are something that an average actor would do.
I want to be sure that if people are coming to a show and paying $100 that I want to give them their money's worth. I try to give 100 percent.
I'm comfortable with my femininity, and I don't try to change what I look like just because I'm reporting on football at the end of the night.
I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.
Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.
The only way artists can do things is to do it for themselves. Trying to second guess what the public wants or likes is kind of a fool's game.
I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.