Trying Quotes - Page 435

The American official was trying to talk about aid and development projects and finally a local tribal chief got up and said, "Even if you turn our country into heaven, we don't want it from you. Just leave us."

As it becomes longer at No. 1, I feel more and more pressure. Everybody is trying to grab every piece of me.

People are trying to grab every part of you, so it's really hard to focus.

I'll try anything once.

I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.

OWFI was founded by a few Iraqi women who decided to have a voice. We were sure the future government would not be a woman-friendly one. From the first day our policy was to try to gain support from outside Iraq.

I try not to take things too personally, because most of the time, people aren't even thinking about anyone else but themselves.

I'll write down and catalogue all the different devices that are Americana to me, and I try to have a historic depth and breadth and also the things that we do in our time, the type of vamps and chants, things that are available to us.

So when we spend all of our time trying to separate that which is already joined, it's a waste of time.

Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the day, they never became pop stars. I counter stated that very strongly, and I continue to do that.

Sometimes running a corporation, dealing with powerful companies and trying to juggle so many projects takes its toll.

I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.

With 'Rampart,' I read it and I'm like, 'That's the best role I've ever been offered. Phenomenal.' But, I was daunted, you know? Like the concept of trying to be a cop. It's just bizarre, man. Bizarre to even think about.

I try to apply the organic concept to my clothes and bedding as well. There's nothing like swimming in organic cotton sheets.

The only thing that does change, to some degree, is [that] you have some life experiences, you suffer a certain amount and you incorporate that into your work. Not in the content of your work, but in the sensibility of your work. It's nothing that you try and do; it just happens. And if you're lucky, people buy tickets to see it, and if you're not lucky, [then] they don't like it. But that's all.

I don't believe in God. Just try getting a plumber on the weekend.

Side Effects Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on the weekend. Woody Allen Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

If you aren't failing, you aren't trying.

The original interest in making pictures that don't directly depict came around '97 or '98, when I felt there was such an acceleration of images in the world, and that was before Flickr and so on. So I felt a need to slow down how one consumes photographs. With the abstract pictures, I was engaged in trying to find new images, but in practice, it was a bit like throwing a wrench in the spokes. The omnipresence of photography is at a level that it has never been in the history of the world. I feel really curious to now reengage and see what the camera can do for me.

This ongoing coexistence which makes life sensational. The eyes have this ability to flip around what they see from one second to another, to see something as an object, and then as a design. That's really liberating, and I try to convey that in my work, that your eyes are free and you are free to use them.

I think I generally try to buy the best quality and keep it simple. I don't try to make too many decorations, too many things with it.

I'm trying to keep the face of my opponent more or less not damaged but eventually to execute the plan and knock him out.

I just worked really, really hard to stay in people's faces, so it would be hard to forget about me. I'm just trying to stay popular and do the same thing over and over.

In my experience of large enterprises, I have found it is often a mistake to try to settle everything at once.

The is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.