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I've been trying really hard to be more domesticated. It's not in my nature to clean and cook, and so I've been really good about it. — Jenna Dewan

I'm trying to make it cool to be a good girl. — Reese Witherspoon

The only good excuse for not succeeding is DEATH! Unless you're trying to be a ghost. Then it's LIFE! — Craig Benzine

It's good to try stuff. I wrote a book that I threw away, and I think I just wrote it so I could try stuff in it and not be scared — Jami Attenberg

What you aim for, in the first place, is to be as good as you can possibly be. This is what I do, and I'm going to try to be the best in the world. — Andy Summers

I pretty much stay true to myself and try to find the good in people and not be snarky. — Tim Gunn

I'm not just trying to be a good game manager. I'm trying to be great. — Drew Brees

Trying to always be the nice guy, to appear good, can be limiting. Avoiding confrontation has closed up a number of possibilities for me. — Stefan Sagmeister

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals. — Robert Kazinsky

Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers. — Justin Theroux

Two easy steps to be a good writer:
1. Don't write what everyone is writing.
2. Write what everyone is trying to write. — Himanshu Chhabra

When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'. — Groucho Marx

If I'm going to be president, I will try the best I can, and I'm a very good dealmaker, believe me. — Donald Trump

If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best. — Donald Hall

The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning. — Emile Hirsch

I wanted them to be diverse. The whole underlying principle of the X-Men was to try to be an anti-bigotry story to show there's good in every person, — Stan Lee

I don't think I was a fine game coach. I'm trying to be honest. I think I was a good practice coach. — John Wooden

I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular. — John Denver

I'm trying to teach people not to be selfish. That's the thing. If you have a good thing share it. Of course we're not in a sexual relationship. — Jhene Aiko

I'm always trying to be a good ambassador for my country. — Goran Visnjic

I wouldn't be here if I didn't believe I was good enough to be here and hopefully I can perform well for my club and try and get to the World Cup. — Peter Crouch

One day I'll be able to relax a bit, and try and become a good composer. — Benjamin Britten

I try to be cool, but I'm not very good at it. — Liam Payne

Like the Good Samaritan, may we not be ashamed of touching the wounds of those who suffer, but try to heal them with concrete acts of love. — Pope Francis

It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in. — George Eliot

Trying to be like me as a person is not a good idea. To have the same interest, to talk about the same and so on and so on... it's kind time waste! — Deyth Banger

But are there really good people? Good people, through and through? Or are we all just varying versions of bad people, some trying harder to be good? — Anna Banks

The road to hell may be paved with good intentions but the path to misery is cobbled with trying to live up to other people's status updates — LaToya Hankins

I'm not exceptionally fast or overly powerful. But I have a good work ethic, and I make up for it by using technique and trying to be smarter. — Dot Richardson

There is no use trying to do Church work without love. A doctor, a lawyer, may do good work without love, but God's work cannot be done without love. — D.L. Moody

I just want my kid to not hate and to be a good human. That's what you try to do. You hope that they are the next evolution of your thing. — Matt Nathanson

Stop trying to be different. Just do what you are good at, and work really hard. You have to work hard to be chaos. — Frederick Lenz

I try to be as ruthless as possible. I ask myself of each sentence, "Is it clear? Is it true? Does it feel good?" And if it's not, then I rewrite it. — William Manchester

The Christian message is not an exhortation - "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving gospel in that. — Halford Luccock

Not trying to be arrogant, but if I walked down the street and a girl saw me, she might take a look back because maybe I'm good-looking, right? — Justin Bieber

There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things. — Julie Bowen

I am a bad person trying very hard to be a good person. — Nora Sakavic

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned. — Sylvester Stallone

No matter what you're doing, if you're trying to make a movie, you need to be working with people that are really good and who make you better. — Ben Affleck

I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just, kind, merciful way. — Andrew Solomon

I try to anticipate exactly where my teammates are going to be. Sometimes I look good. Sometimes I look bad. — Jason Kidd

The way to do good basic design isn't actually to be really smart about it, but to try to have a few basic concepts. — Linus Torvalds

It's no good trying to teach people who need to be taught. — Aleister Crowley

Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. — F Scott Fitzgerald

It's not enough not to be evil. We also actively try to be good. — Sergey Brin

I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music. — Brian May

It's exhausting, trying to make a bad person act good. You can see why it's so much easier for them to be bad. — David Levithan

I'd rather stay away from the limelight. Not because I'm trying to be a good boy and all that stuff. I just love quiet. — Cliff Floyd

It was exhausting, trying to be perfect. It feels good being able to be just me. — Kristen Ashley

There is no sense in trying to be good, hoping to find myself back in God's grace, when Nick's skin makes heaven seem like a flooded trailer park. — Mel Bossa

Do you really mean the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward? That's not morality, that's just sucking up. — Richard Dawkins

Try saying hello to someone who wouldn't expect you to - today would be good. — John Avery

Don't be content in your life just to do no wrong, be prepared every day to try and do some good. — Nicholas Winton

To be world champion brings fame. The fame brings good things and bad things too. I try to take the good with calmness. — Sergio Martinez

My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do. — Steve Jobs

Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have. — Elizabeth Smart

Trying to be completely sincere with yourself is a good exercise. — Sigmund Freud

It takes time to be a good father. It takes effort - trying, failing, and trying again. — Tim Hansel

I'm merely trying to be something akin to a nice, kind, good actress. — Christina Ricci

I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples. — Andrew Solomon

I'm just constantly trying to be a good dad. — David Charvet

Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good. — Dejan Stojanovic

I am trying to be a good person. I am trying to be myself, and if nobody likes me for me, that is their problem. — Evan Rachel Wood

She never thought she was good at making friends. But maybe she was just trying to be friends with the wrong people. — Sarah Addison Allen

Stop trying to be someone you're not. Be what you're good at, be you. — Jeffree Star

Work hard and meticulously. When in trouble, look closely at a text that is a good example of what you're trying to do. And be patient. — Lydia Davis

I'm trying to be good with my skin care now that I'm getting older. I really do think it's from the inside - so exercise, hydration, sleep, sex. — Gwyneth Paltrow

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. — Jay Asher

How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia's good while trying to take his funds, his money abroad? — Vladimir Putin

I always wanted to try to be a teacher even before I was in the music business. I liked history, and good teachers made an impact on me. — Billy Joel

Trying to be a good mother may be as distant from being a good mother as trying to have a good time is from truly having one. — Lionel Shriver

I'm not trying to be as good or better than anybody; that's not how I work. — Ryan Sheckler

I can't make anybody happy, so I try my best to be good at what I do — Nikki Sixx

For the most part, I try to be healthy and eat good things, but if you give me a baguette and some Camembert, I'm gonna eat it. — Gwyneth Paltrow

I try my best to be a good person and be the best I can be. — Selena Gomez

We are trying to get marijuana reclassified medically. If we do that, we'll be using the issue as a red herring to give marijuana a good name. — Keith Stroup

It's impossible to be a good Christian. If you think it's easy to be a good Christian, then you're not really trying hard enough. — John Tesh

I was just trying to be a very good human, instead I became a hero. — Amit Kalantri

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time. — Edith Wharton

Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out. — Henri Matisse

We are born to a time. What you do with it is on you. Do the best you can. Try to be good. And live. — Charlie LeDuff

You know what make me laugh? Good, clean, honest humor. Not-trying-to-be-funny humor. Like Will Ferrell. Will Ferrell got that kind of humor. — Redman

Try to be the best of what you are, even if what you are is no good. — Ashleigh Brilliant

A book, a good chair, my pipe, and a good bed to go to when night falls, and I'm as happy as one can be in this very trying world. — Warren Lewis

If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything. — Tom Rath

I am just trying to be a good, protective mother. I want to give Bertie as normal a childhood as possible while preserving his privacy. — Kate Bush

You need to relax and be yourself, not whoever it is you're trying to be in your mad little head. I bloody don't, though. I'm me and I'm good at it. — Nick Harkaway

We're not going to be the coolest rock stars in the world. We're trying to be good musicians. — Eddie Vedder

If I need something, I just draw it, have a few friends make it move, and it exists. I enjoy this strange power. I try to be a good sorcerer, though. — Michel Ocelot

I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world. — Yoko Ono

For it was easy to be good and kind in times of plenty. The trying times were the moments that defined a man. — Renee Ahdieh

I'm trying to be really coy, and I'm not sure if I'm doing a good job. — Colin Hanks

Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind. — Dorothy Day

Anyway, I try to be a good guy. I try to tell the truth, but I'm not religious. — William H. Macy

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one. — Mark Twain

Whenever we play a really good game, everybody's going to be a hero, and the good part about it is nobody's trying to be a hero. — Carlos Gonzalez

Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good. — William McDonough

It's good to be here. I'm just trying to go through life without looking stupid. It's not working out too well. — Brian Regan

It is discouraging to try to be a good neighbor in a bad neighborhood. — William Castle

The way to meditate is by not trying to be too good at it too quickly. This is essential, because otherwise you won't have any fun with it. — Frederick Lenz