Trying Quotes - Page 218

Complacency doesn't make sense for a guy trying to redefine normal.

We are not inviting—we are guarded. Most of our energy is spent trying to hide our true selves, and control our worlds to have some sense of security.

Get your sense of outrage back, and your sense of defiance and spirit back, and try to put these pieces together and confront the excesses of empire at every turn.

Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it.

any compulsion tries to justify itself.

If I could change one thing about myself... I would try to control my generosity.

Only when we try to understand one another's suffering can we begin to bring each other joy.

Like a forensic accountant trying to solve a corporate fraud, following the trail of money around the circle is a good way to understand what actually happens as capitalism unfolds.

I'm trying to be in the moment and really enjoy my pregnancy. I feel really lucky.

I have a life that I enjoy; I try and value the things that I think are worth valuing and everything else is icing. You know, it is a kick to go down the red carpet in that dress and then you go back home.

Something you hear a lot is that feminism dead. But if feminism is dead, why do people try so hard to kill it?

For me, acting was always a way to explore emotions - to dip into the well and really try to reach rock bottom down there. That was the most exciting part of it. I hadn't found anything that really allowed me to do that until I came upon acting.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

Allah is not Jehovah either. Jehovah's not going to turn you into a terrorist that'll try to bomb people and take the lives of thousands and thousands of people.

We don't have to start all over again and try to keep the slate clean. There is no more slate.

I always love trying to put my arms around more people. As a designer, it's a great compliment when people wear your clothes or buy your products, so to do things that are more affordable and have more of a distribution is always very exciting - especially when I can still bring my personality in complete, heavy doses. It's not a diluted version of me; it's a very clear extension of my personality.

I feel like I'm over-paid-attention-to. I'm not trying to be a GIF. I'm not trying to be a picked-up-on-Twitter quote. All I'm trying to do is act. And I have to promote movies. And I am, at the end of the day, I guess, a f - king lunatic.

Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.

When there's people on the other side of the room trying to wipe out your life and things are stacked against you, you can get nervous.

Good leaders are very curious, and they spend a lot of time trying to learn things.

Instead of running for President, why don’t you try walking on a treadmill?

Why should we stop living because some people try to kill what is left of energy in ourselves?

I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape.

I still go through stages of wanting to try other trades. When I was young I thought I'd be a magician. And then a cartoonist. Or a professional roller-skater. But there wasn't much support for those on career day.