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I can't think of any punk who's put on an acoustic and hasn't just tried to sound like James Taylor.
— Buzz Osborne
I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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 was looking for long term, and, my Lev ... he would give me long term. My heart belonged to him. Lord help the person who tried to get between us.
— Belle Aurora
Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy.
— Samuel Rutherford
Columbia tried to put me behind other groups, so I didn't wanna wait, they let me out of the contract and I'm glad they did.
— DMX
Me not showing any emotion is not the best for me. I've tried that. It kind of bottles up, and then at some point explodes.
— Donald Young
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
Almost everything I tried out for I pretty much got. I landed Power Rangers, and the rest is history.
— Thuy Trang
It don't matter what you tried to do, you couldn't destroy me! I'm still standing! I'm still strong! And I always will be.
— Antwone Fisher
One of the big mistakes Republicans made with the Contract with America is that they tried to do too much too fast, and people revolted against it.
— Dick Gephardt
If Frank and I tried to be something, it would be *real*, in a way that was scary - but also really exciting -Emily
— Morgan Matson
My uncle was a music producer and even he'd tell me to get a proper job. I tried to get him to give me five grand to make an album - it didn't happen.
— Gold Panda
I tried football and got my ass beat. I tried baseball, and the ball knocked out one of my teeth.
— Usher
I've learned to let my characters speak and act the way they want to! I've tried to interfere but they just get angry at me and throw big rocks.
— Shandy L. Kurth
You can't break through Hollywood formulaic points of view. I've tried, and I think I was more successful than anybody at doing it.
— Roseanne Barr
It was really weird, when this thing started, to hear lawyers and MTV people calling me and actually saying 'ButtHead.' People tried to avoid it too.
— Mike Judge
What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.
— David Copperfield
To be a strong and empathetic person always requires us to trust that God will send angels to the people's heart we tried to reach, but couldn't.
— Shannon L. Alder
To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort
— Gene Kranz
People who have not tried, know so much about gardening! - and so little.
— Anna Bartlett Warner
All last year we tried to teach him (Fernando Valenzuela) English, and the only word he learned was million.
— Tommy Lasorda
There are far too many silent sufferers. Not because they don't yearn to reach out, but because they've tried and found no one who cares.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
If none of God's saints were troubled and tried - we would not know half so well the consolations of divine grace.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I think I tried on the hardcore scene's outfits maybe once, and then I just figured I'd stick to Hawaiian shirts.
— Dave Sitek
I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be fairly judged and fairly tried.
— Wesley Snipes
Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.
— Jackie Chan
It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.
— Bjork
I'm so fat and I'm so depressed; last night I tried to hang myself - but the rope broke.
— Joan Rivers
I don't want to let you go," he said just above a whisper. "I've tried and I can't. The thought of it twists me in a knot.
— Rachel Gibson
I tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural. From that moment I became so embedded in boxing. I found a friend in boxing.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
He's sort of caught everybody on the hot, really, and good luck to him. He tried it last week as an experiment and it certainly worked.
— Colin Montgomerie
Rincewind tried shutting his eyes, but there were no eyelids to his imagination and it was staring widely
— Terry Pratchett
I've never made any effort to hide what happened. I served my time, I've tried to learn and move on.
— Victor Salva
She tried, and failed, to stop herself from shaking.
— Stephen Lloyd Jones
Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done.
— Julian Castro
Along the way, I've tried not to make the same mistake twice, to learn, to adapt, and to pray for the wisdom to make better choices in the future.
— Hillary Rodham Clinton
I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.
— Brian Setzer
We do not need a new moral order; the world desperately needs the tried and tested moral order that God handed down at Sinai.
— Billy Graham
She had tried. She had fought. And she had lost.
— Stephanie Clifford
I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.
— Harmony Korine
I've tried to stay away from you, to not touch you, and I've tried so fucking hard not to fall in love with you.
— Alison G. Bailey
We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.
— Sheila Heti
I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me.
— Bertrand Russell
I was a late bloomer. I tried out for the football team, and I got locked off the field. That's how I wound up in drama.
— Dennis Quaid
I'm pretty tried-and-tested in the world of 'suit acting.'
— Pierce Brosnan
There are many Universal Facts of Life: things that are so tried and tested as to be irrefutable.
— Fennel Hudson
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 did everything I could do and tried as hard as I could. In light of how I putted, I guess second place will do.
— Cristie Kerr
I tried to give him my best you're-so-sexy-and-I'm-impressed look, but I don't think it worked.
— Jessica Verday
I tried not to think about it too much, though. I was good at mental hide and seek. If I couldn't see it, it couldn't see me. I
— April White
Erik got to his feet, aware of her watching him, and tried not to preen at the frank admiration in her eyes. Preening was not manly.
— Tiffany Snow
I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything.
— Jon Stewart
I worked thirteen years, got me nowhere. I feel like I tried it their way, and to hell with them. Now I'm going to try it my way.
— Lee Child
I've always tried to figure out what people think of themselves and what they think they're projecting.
— Amy Heckerling
I went to college in Iowa for a little bit and tried to get some bands together there. That was about a year of my life.
— Dave Keuning
Eventually we all need someone to try and save us; even if they fail, the fact that someone tried might be what matters most in the end.
— Jay Crownover
I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
— David Bailey
She'd had sex with a demon. Tayla swallowed bile and tried to keep her stomach from heaving. She needed to shower. And douche.
— Larissa Ione
Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination.
— Albert Einstein
I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded.
[Epitaph from Gail Borden's gravestone.] — Gail Borden
[Epitaph from Gail Borden's gravestone.] — Gail Borden
I didn't come up with the lie. It wasn't mine. They handed the lie to me, and I tried like hell to make it work for a while.
— Kenneth Logan
I used to hold a fiery wind
and I tried to determine the direction
where poetry would fly. — Alda Merini
and I tried to determine the direction
where poetry would fly. — Alda Merini
All I've done all my life is just tried to better the game for our players and for those people watching.
— Bobby Hull
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
It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.
— Kenneth Williams
When I was at college - that was the first time I tried singing. I played in a band, and people seemed to like it.
— Bryan Ferry
I made a noise in my throat and tried to remember why I thought I'd missed her the last couple of days.
— Jay Crownover
I followed my heart and figured that if I tried and failed, at least I'd know that I tried.
— Michelle Branch
He tried to turn me into a buffet?" I gritted my teeth. "Before he killed me? He couldn't kill me first and then eat me? That's just fucking rude.
— Rob Thurman
I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.
— Sophia Loren
There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride; In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried.
— Ken Kesey
Then she tried to bore herself to sleep by thinking about things like yogurt and the structure of a gas pedal.
— Jessica Park
The Beatles tried to do some tours and found it to be completely pointless and became a non-touring band after that, and with very good reason.
— Robbie Robertson
I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
— Francois Rabelais
You took life by the horns and tried to hold on tight, for fear of being ripped to shreds, left bloodied and battered.
— Holly Hood
I'd like people to remember that I really tried everything within my range of reality. And that whatever I did, I did with all my heart.
— Dinah Shore
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
By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient.
— Sadie Frost
Bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down... and won.
— John Prine
Golf has humbled, humiliated, and just about licked all the great athletes who tried it.
— Earl Blaik
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