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I have tried to remain a working, cutting-edge journalist and I don't do it the way everybody else does it. And I think that's the difference.
— Dan Rather
Pretty stupid," I called after his retreating form. "To give up before all possible solutions have been tried.
— Maria V. Snyder
My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
— Vern Buchanan
I could live a thousand years and still not know everything, still not have tried anything.
— Cam Gigandet
I tell ya, I could have got some more jobs if I'd tried, but I went to Sweden instead.
— Lee Hazlewood
I have always tried to work with first-time actors since my first movie. I always like to do movies with debutants.
— Fedor Bondarchuk
I had headaches for over 30 years until I tried chiropractic. They have completely disappeared.
— Melvin Belli
Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.
— Art Linkletter
I tried to tell you that it's not Spade in there."
"You could have tried harder. I absolutely never needed to know that Ian was pierced down there. — Jeaniene Frost
"You could have tried harder. I absolutely never needed to know that Ian was pierced down there. — Jeaniene Frost
If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
— Larry Brilliant
I also have my backpack of the tried-and-true, and because it is new to [my students], it becomes fresh to me again as well.
— Dorianne Laux
I have a personal life and a professional life, and there's no way to separate them; for a while I tried, but no one could find me.
— Mitchell Baker
I had a great love affair in high school and let myself have that love affair and tried to keep it to myself.
— Lisa Cholodenko
I tried to kill myself because I felt hopeless. You do this, I have hope. Okay?" "You're whoring me out.
— C.D. Reiss
I would have loved to have cracked America. When I tried, I got homesick. Then, when I was in New York, my nanna died, and I just wanted to come home.
— Cilla Black
The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people: to present them with something they didn't expect.
— Christopher Lee
Have you tried to talk to her?"
"What would you like me to say Bastian? OH, I'M SORRY, INEZ. I DIDN'T MEAN TO BITE YOU, MY FANGS SLIPPED. — Lynsay Sands
"What would you like me to say Bastian? OH, I'M SORRY, INEZ. I DIDN'T MEAN TO BITE YOU, MY FANGS SLIPPED. — Lynsay Sands
I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.
— Arthur Ashe
I have always tried ... to lay before the colored race a cross section of it's own life, to view the colored heart from close range.
— Oscar Micheaux
The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.
— Ken Adam
I have always tried to use humor to "help ever" and "hurt never," for I find that to laugh is like swallowing a secret that Santa Claus farted.
— David Cross
What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing ... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.
— Eve Arnold
I tried to push him away with my head. I apologise to everyone. I should not have got involved in it.
— Alan Pardew
I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.
— Molly Parker
I have a big ego, and I'm a confident person, but when it comes down to being a jerk, that doesn't work for me, I tried it ... for about ten years.
— Harry Connick Jr.
I don't think I have ever tried to create things to encourage people to hurt others, or themselves.
— Marilyn Manson
I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of bed.
— Marian Engel
I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
— Robert Benchley
I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.
— Norman McLaren
I don't know who tried to teach him what to do in the bedroom, but it must have been a furniture salesman.
— Alice Walker
I've never tried to work chronologically. I don't think I have the discipline to do that.
— Cliff Martinez
I tried immediately to have a baby because I was so afraid not to have a baby in my life.
— Roberto Cavalli
I am 36 years old, I can't change. I have tried, trust me, but I can't. It's nice to get over yourself and just do it.
— Kevin Drew
I have tried to be a generous narrator and care for my girl as best I can. I cannot help that readers will always insist on adventures ...
— Catherynne M Valente
I've always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself for being fallible.
— Claire Danes
I have tried in my way to be free.
— Leonard Cohen
I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best.
— Mark Twain
-"Stop"
"I've tried. I can't. These past few days, not knowing if you were okay have been hell."
-"I'm okay."
"I'm not. — Rachel Gibson
"I've tried. I can't. These past few days, not knowing if you were okay have been hell."
-"I'm okay."
"I'm not. — Rachel Gibson
I have tried to hold my philanthropic passion to fashion, because I think this is very important, and I realize I need to delve even deeper into it.
— Donna Karan
I personally made lots of mistakes during my 10-12 years as a newspaper editor. Some of which I felt were big mistakes I have tried to address.
— Rebekah Brooks
I have always tried to do my job in a way that I have people give me different points of view.
— Colin Powell
I don't tell him I couldn't have gorged if I'd tried, my stomach stuffed full of butterflies and grown-up worries.
— Emily Murdoch
Look, I have never made a secret of the fact that I have tried marijuana ... About 50,000 times.
— Bill Maher
In order to be great, you have to learn from greatness, which is what I have tried to do.
— David Oliver
Have you ever tried?'
'No.'
'Then don't tell me I can't. — Melissa Marr
'No.'
'Then don't tell me I can't. — Melissa Marr
I have tried if I could reach that great resolution ... to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.
— Thomas Browne
I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.
— Carl Jung
If a person loses hope, they have lost everything. (I tried to put this one in the earlier quotes section, but it never loaded properly.)
— Dennis Moulton
I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.
— Nuruddin Farah
I have tried to use memory and invention together, like two hands engaged in the same muddy work of digging up the past.
— Emma Donoghue
The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.
— Cathy Guisewite
I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
— Francois Rabelais
You forgot to cross off anal sex."
"I tried it once. Didn't like it. If you're better at it, I'll have another crack." I paused. "No pun intended. — C.D. Reiss
"I tried it once. Didn't like it. If you're better at it, I'll have another crack." I paused. "No pun intended. — C.D. Reiss
I've always tried to maintain that I don't have any advice to give. I'm a curious observer.
— Aziz Ansari
I have tried," I said, "but he does not believe me. It is too late for that now" (it is always too late for truth, I thought).
— Jean Rhys
Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.
— Henry Rollins
I tried to fix her but should have remembered the number one rule about fixing broken people: you always get stuck with their sharp edges.
— Charity Ferrell
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
— Paul Cezanne
I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have such a gift with language.
— Angelina Jolie
I have tried many times to express my feelings, but at each attempt, I find myself tongue-tied.
— Kate Cary
I attribute my good fortune to the simple fact that I have always tried to write straight from my own heart to the hearts of others.
— Marie Corelli
I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.
— Patrick Rothfuss
I have tried ... believe me, I have tried to like rap music. It makes me feel so very, very old. I have tried to get home with the downies.
— Dylan Moran
If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
— Brian Eno
I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.
— B.B. King
I don't have so many friends I can afford to drop one just because he tried to kill me.
— Loren D. Estleman
I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.
— Lorna Luft
Ya were going to turn me into a rat? Had I known that I wouldn't have tried to turn ya into a snake.
— Michelle M. Pillow
I didn't want people to accuse me of being really depressive. I really tried to fight against that and not have a complete downer about the subject.
— Joe Casey
I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.
— Billy Sheehan
Have you noticed that it is usually easier to judge than obey? Religious people are especially good at it. I tried
— Elizabeth Musser
When a man's faith is never tried, I don't think he'll ever learn anything. You have to have trial and tribulation, or what are you going to learn?
— McCoy Tyner
My sister Laura's bigger than me
And lifts me up quite easily.
I can't lift her, I've tried and tried;
She must have something heavy inside. — Spike Milligan
And lifts me up quite easily.
I can't lift her, I've tried and tried;
She must have something heavy inside. — Spike Milligan
I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
— Winston Churchill
I wouldn't say that I was an actress. I tried to be an actress. I really didn't have the gift.
— Zoe Cassavetes
I enjoy scenes in films, which do not have the pressure of the story so much ... and it flows. I've tried to go in that direction.
— Imtiaz Ali
If I have tried to bring anything to federal politics, it is the idea that hope and optimism should be at their heart.
— Jack Layton
Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction.
— Steven Heighton
I have tried to keep memory alive ... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.
— Elie Wiesel
I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have.
— Martina Mcbride
In my art I have tried to explain to myself life and its meaning. I have also tried to help others to clarify their lives.
— Edvard Munch
I have tried, of course, to be faithful to the evidence. Yet evidence is not truth. It is only evident.
— Tim O'Brien
I tried living as a very nice person, but there's no need to be nice .. you have to be mean to survive
— Kim Heechul
I only want to write. I don't care about directing really. I've tried it and it was fun, but it's not like I have to.
— Catherine O'Hara
You're my son, Jesper. I can't protect you. Maybe I shouldn't have tried. But I will be there even when you falter. Every time.
— Leigh Bardugo
I once had a problem ... so I tried group sex. Now I have a new problem - who to thank.
— Rodney Dangerfield