Trying Quotes - Page 661

He's been dead for so many years, but I'm still trying to impress him. That's what gave me my drive. 'Look at me, Dad, I've succeeded.'

What we should be doing as musicians is trying to bring people together.

It's like trying to drink whisky from a bottle of wine.

[On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a good try and accumulated a fund of useless information guaranteed to cast a pall over any dinner table.

I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view.

What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

When I was a kid, I remember trying to emulate Stevie Wonder's sound, and Donny Hathaway's sound. It's just part of who I am - I'm just a soulful kind of dude.

Another way to test hypotheses about adaptation is to consider trait variation across a group of species instead of focusing on the trait of a single species. Rather than seeking to explain why polar bears have fur of a certain thickness, one tries to explain why bears in colder climates have thicker fur than bears in warmer climates. The former problem is hard to solve, since it is hard to say exactly what fur thickness polar bears should have if natural selection guided the evolution of that trait.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record

In translation you have to get it right, you have to be precise in what you're doing. You have to attempt what they did in that language - say, in Arabic - and try to accomplish a version of that in English, and you're constantly serving two masters.

Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I'm concerned that this will affect the quality.

When you're younger, you tend to be reckless about trying to find out who you are and what you can do and should do. But as you get older you become more accepting of yourself, and with that comes greater contentment.

There are so many things to think about when you make an album. Like, who am I trying to impress? Am I going to get respect, critical acclaim? Or am I going to sell lots of records?

The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.

Leaning forward in your chair when someone is trying to squeeze behind you isn't enough. You also have to move the chair.

I like to try new things because I get bored so easily.

Trying to get the talk show, looking back on it, we had to beg a lot of station managers to pick up the show because people thought no one would watch it because I'm openly gay.

I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys so it's pretty equal. I don't know why that is. It's been the same thing for a while. It's hard for female comedians to stand out. That's weird. That's a shame.

We're just trying to find happiness in the bodies and minds we were given, like everyone else.

Regret is a toxin that I try not to allow in my body.

When I have hiring power, I try to work with women in my camera crew as much as possible.

The first time we did it [voice-over], I was trying to use my face and my eyes more so and really portray that emotion, and that didn't matter. I realized you have to bring that emotion into the way you sound, and all those different layers have to be in your voice instead of the way you are wrinkling your eyebrows or whatever. I had to learn how to do that.

I always try to do something very different with each character because that's why I like to do this, because I can become someone else completely and it's fun.

I come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks.

Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.