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Trying Quotes

The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don't. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy Picture Quote #1

You've fallen into a classic trap: Trying to fix a woman's problems instead of just listening to what they are Picture Quote #1

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 using friendly and sincere words Picture Quote #1

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie Picture Quote #1

I'm trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my audience and create a legacy that outlives me. There are so many other ways I want to reach women besides doing a talk show Picture Quote #1

I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security Picture Quote #1

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I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences Picture Quote #1

It's just an unhealthy way to approach something, trying to outdo your last thing. You've gotta trust evolution, you've gotta trust that the bar is moving, that you don't need to force the bar. It'll just happen Picture Quote #1

I feel an obligation to set the record straight. Actors that say they're affected by something, that it changes their life, that they take it home with them, they're just trying to get nominated for an Oscar! Picture Quote #1

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks Picture Quote #1

Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws Picture Quote #1

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it Picture Quote #1

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Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier Picture Quote #1

I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools Picture Quote #1

Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me Picture Quote #1

When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember Picture Quote #1

Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in it's place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony, and beauty may reign supreme Picture Quote #1

Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven't been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain Picture Quote #1

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I'd play whenever I could get my hands on an electric guitar; I was trying to pick up rock'n'roll riffs and electric blues - the latest Muddy Waters. I'd spend hours and hours on the same track, back again, and back again Picture Quote #1

I think that my work is my attempt, I suppose, is to try and become a piece of connective tissue. I'm trying to communicate with people here and in America - in rich countries - about what I see on the ground in badly affected areas Picture Quote #1

We watched some of the movie. It was shocking. Sex is apparently hard labor. Various persons supported crushing weights in agonizing positions for what seemed like endless blocks of time. Exhausted men grunted and toiled like movers trying to get a refrigerator into a fifth floor walk-up Picture Quote #1

There have been those who magnificently dared. There have been bearers of the truth, men who groped in the world's tumult, trying to make plain order of it. They discover what we did not yet know; chiefly they discover what we no longer knew Picture Quote #1

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic Picture Quote #1

People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves. What I'm desperately trying to do is to get students to talk to themselves, and not someone else Picture Quote #1

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I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie. You're sitting here watching a movie. and I like that. It appeals to me intellectually, and also in a way I can't even explain Picture Quote #1

If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable Picture Quote #1

China gets their oil from Libya. why isn't China involved? they're going out spending billions of dollars a day on trying to take over the world economically. and we're spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on policing the world. why isn't China involved with Libya? That - we don't get oil from Libya, china does Picture Quote #1

I'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non art world audience Picture Quote #1

Well, I think in trying to make life seem real enough that one is moved to do something about the more atrocious things. By going really far afield into a completely fake world, maybe there's a chance to make things resonant somehow - or in this case, truly terrifying. To make it as bad as the real stuff that's happening Picture Quote #1

If you're trying to turn me into something else, it's easy to see I'm not down with that Picture Quote #1

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The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don't. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy (Trying Quotes) You've fallen into a classic trap: Trying to fix a woman's problems instead of just listening to what they are (Trying Quotes) 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 using friendly and sincere words (Trying Quotes) Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie (Trying Quotes) I'm trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my audience and create a legacy that outlives me. There are so many other ways I want to reach women besides doing a talk show (Trying Quotes) I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security (Trying Quotes) I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences (Trying Quotes) It's just an unhealthy way to approach something, trying to outdo your last thing. You've gotta trust evolution, you've gotta trust that the bar is moving, that you don't need to force the bar. It'll just happen (Trying Quotes) I feel an obligation to set the record straight. Actors that say they're affected by something, that it changes their life, that they take it home with them, they're just trying to get nominated for an Oscar! (Trying Quotes) All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks (Trying Quotes) Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws (Trying Quotes) The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it (Trying Quotes) Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier (Trying Quotes) I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools (Trying Quotes) Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me (Trying Quotes) When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember (Trying Quotes) Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in it's place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony, and beauty may reign supreme (Trying Quotes) Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven't been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain (Trying Quotes) I'd play whenever I could get my hands on an electric guitar; I was trying to pick up rock'n'roll riffs and electric blues - the latest Muddy Waters. I'd spend hours and hours on the same track, back again, and back again (Trying Quotes) I think that my work is my attempt, I suppose, is to try and become a piece of connective tissue. I'm trying to communicate with people here and in America - in rich countries - about what I see on the ground in badly affected areas (Trying Quotes) We watched some of the movie. It was shocking. Sex is apparently hard labor. Various persons supported crushing weights in agonizing positions for what seemed like endless blocks of time. Exhausted men grunted and toiled like movers trying to get a refrigerator into a fifth floor walk-up (Trying Quotes) There have been those who magnificently dared. There have been bearers of the truth, men who groped in the world's tumult, trying to make plain order of it. They discover what we did not yet know; chiefly they discover what we no longer knew (Trying Quotes) The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic (Trying Quotes) People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves. What I'm desperately trying to do is to get students to talk to themselves, and not someone else (Trying Quotes) I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie. You're sitting here watching a movie. and I like that. It appeals to me intellectually, and also in a way I can't even explain (Trying Quotes) If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable (Trying Quotes) China gets their oil from Libya. why isn't China involved? they're going out spending billions of dollars a day on trying to take over the world economically. and we're spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on policing the world. why isn't China involved with Libya? That - we don't get oil from Libya, china does (Trying Quotes) I'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non art world audience (Trying Quotes) Well, I think in trying to make life seem real enough that one is moved to do something about the more atrocious things. By going really far afield into a completely fake world, maybe there's a chance to make things resonant somehow - or in this case, truly terrifying. To make it as bad as the real stuff that's happening (Trying Quotes) If you're trying to turn me into something else, it's easy to see I'm not down with that (Trying Quotes)

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