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“I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.”

Trying Years America Parent Half Study Groups Six Excellent Permission Boston Scholarship Yale Consulting Half A Year

Author:Indra Nooyi

“Kristin Bauer is so funny. Half the time I'm working with her I'm just trying to keep a straight face.”

Trying Faces Half Straight Face

Author:Rutina Wesley

“My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it.”

Trying Children Two Wanted Actors Bits Half Roles Cry Mom My Mom Convinced Nervous Ran Cute Auditions Skeptical Interrupted Bossy Child Actors

Author:Mae Whitman

“I feel good doing it. It's not like guys are stripping me at half-court or I'm just losing the ball dribbling. I think I'm handling the ball pretty well, just trying to make good passes, man.”

Thinking Men Feels Trying Wells Guy Half Losing Balls Court Feel Good I Feel Good Stripping

Author:Kevin Durant

“In retrospect, it's ridiculous that anyone saw me as a fashion icon, since all I was trying to do was to dumb down my middle-class look by messing with my hair. Throughout the eighties I was invariably half-sure and half-confident about whatever it was I wore…Still, I've always believed—still do—that the radical is far more interesting when it looks benign and ordinary on the outside.”

Trying Looks Stills Interesting Half Class Saws Middle Fashion Hair Ordinary Ridiculous Radical Dumb Middle Class Eighty Always Believe Icons Retrospect Benign Fashion Icon

Book:Girl in a Band

Source: Girl in a Band

“My wife and I have spent half our lives, half our adult lives, trying to save special parts of California.”

Trying Half Our Lives Wife Special Adults My Wife California

Author:Pete McCloskey

“All Nature bristles with the marks of interrogation-among the grass and the petals of flowers, amidst the feathers of birds and the hairs of mammals, on mountain and moorland, in sea and sky-everywhere. It is one of the joys of life to discover those marks of interrogation, these unsolved and half-solved problems and try to answer their questions.”

Life Trying Problem Science Joy Nature Answers Half Sea Sky Flower Hair Mountain Bird Mark Grass Feathers Joy Of Life Petals Mammals Interrogation Solved Problems Sea And Sky

Author:J. Arthur Thomson

“I should say, the one thing you run into is, if you're trying to raise a round you have to decide, well, how much money are you trying to raise? And then you have to justify that to your investors, because they want to know why you [are] raising that much? Why aren't you raising either twice as much or half as much?”

Ifs Knows Want Should Trying Wells Running Half One Thing Raises Rounds Justify Investors

Author:David Plotz

“To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry.”

Trying Faith Names Half Bigotry

Book:Dryden: Selected Poems

Source: Dryden: Selected Poems

“Dreams last so long Even after you're gone I know you love me And soon you will see You were meant for me And I was meant for you Go about my business, I'm doing fine Besides, what would I say if I had you on the line Same old story, not much to say Hearts are broken every day I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead I try to tell myself it'll be all right I just shouldn't think anymore tonight”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Trying Heart Long Stories Dream Lasts Song Lines Half Gone Alive Broken Fine Tonight I Know You Love Me

Author:Jewel

“Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison. Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it was a prison might decide that it was really surprisingly comfortable. So that what seems the ugly doctrine is one that comforts and strengthens you in the end. The people who try to hold an optimistic view of this world would become pessimists: the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimistic.”

People Thinking World Trying Ends Seems Might Views Half Imagine This World Building Comfort Comfortable Regard Prison Ugly Doctrine Optimistic Hotel Pessimist Other Half

Author:C. S. Lewis

“I like to start my day off every morning, take the first half hour and just search my own heart, see if I'm on the right course, try to be honest with myself - am I doing this for the right reasons?”

Ifs Trying Firsts Heart Reason Courses Hours My Own Half Morning Honest Being Honest Every Morning Half Hours Days Off

Author:Joel Osteen

“I must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give it a name and a place, and then perhaps, such is the human mind, I shall come to think it a duty, and disregard other duties for it.”

Thinking Giving Writing Trying Mind Humans Names Hours Half Duty Human Mind Diaries Disregard

Author:Virginia Woolf

“There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life.”

Thinking Knows Men Trying Children Persons Stories Dream Remember Half Wonder Vision Youth Poison

Book:H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ Ultimate Collection: 120+ Works ALL in One Volume: Complete Novellas & Short Stories, Juvenilia, Poetry, Essays & Collaborations: The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Out of Time, At the Mountains of Madness, The Dunwich Horror, Dagon, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Outsider, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Cats of Ultharäó_

Source: H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ Ultimate Collection: 120+ Works ALL in One Volume: Complete Novellas & Short Stories, Juvenilia, Poetry, Essays & Collaborations: The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Out of Time, At the Mountains of Madness, The Dunwich Horror, Dagon, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Outsider, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Cats of Ultharäó_

“They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow (Schlaukopf) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half.”

Trying Firsts Half Truth Is Treats Fellows Gentleman Foxes Cunning Pirate

Author:Otto von Bismarck

“I always used to say to players at half-time, 'Be patient. The last fifteen minutes throw the kitchen sink at them. It's worth a gamble'. You are going to lose the game anyway. There is nothing better than when you get to that last fifteen minutes and you actually win the game late on. The fans are going out of the gates I gave it a try and it worked.”

Trying Lasts Used Games Winning Loses Half Player Fans Minutes Late Patient Kitchen Gates Fifteen Going Out Be Patient Gamble Half Time Kitchen Sinks

Author:Alex Ferguson

“I actually am fairly uncomfortable about it, even if our firm stipulation was that they cannot tell us what to do. We are simply doing what we do anyways - securing software - and they have no say in the matter. I try to convince myself that our grant means a half of a cruise missile doesn't get built.”

Ifs Trying Mean Matter Half Built Firm Uncomfortable Convince Grants Software Missiles Cruise Stipulations

Author:Theo de Raadt

“Try to keep them, poet, those erotic visions of yours, however few of them there are that can be stilled. Put them, half-hidden, in your lines.”

Trying Lines Half Vision Poet Erotic

Author:C.P. Cavafy

“The Secret Service said there have been 40 fence-jumping incidents at the White House in the past five years. Half of them were intruders trying to get in. The other half was President Obama trying to get out.”

Trying Years Has Beens Said Past House President White Secret Half Five Five Years White House President Obama Fence Jumping Incidents Other Half Secret Service Intruders

Author:Conan O'Brien

“I'm going to try to enjoy the All-Star break, hope my players reflect on what happened the first half of the season, come back with a different attitude, try to find our solution on how to win it.”

Trying Firsts Different Winning Stars Sports Enjoy Half Attitude Break Player Happened Solutions Seasons All Stars Different Attitude

Author:Don Baylor

“People would read all kinds of reaction into it, but Tracy told me himself that half the time he was just standing very still, trying to look sober and composed. That takes nothing away from him. The fact he got away with it was a tribute to his talent.”

People Trying Looks Kind Stills Facts Half Talent Standing Reactions All Kinds Sober Tribute Tracy

Author:Cesar Romero

“Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious dogma.”

Trying School Christian Order Church Religious Half Atheism New York Positive Atheism Ruins Dogma Public School Christian Church Religious Dogma

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“Basically it takes me very little time to write a song. If I find myself taking more than an hour to do it I usually forget it, and try something else. I like to work quickly; I never like to waste any time. I never write half a song and come back to it later at all. It all has to be done at once. I lose interest if it doesn't.”

Ifs Writing Trying Littles Done Song Interest Hours Loses Forget Half Waste Take Me Forget It Little Time

Author:Bernie Taupin

“This is a living planet. Look around. Mars, Venus, Jupiter. Look beyond our solar system. Where else is there a place that works, that is just right for the likes of us? It has not happened just instantly. It is vulnerable to our actions. But it's the result of four and a half billion years of evolution, of change over time. And it changes every day, all the time. It would be in our interest to try to maintain a certain level of stability that has enabled us to prosper, to not wreck the very systems that give us life.”

“I live part-time in a cabin in Colorado up in the mountains and part-time on a ranch in central Texas - but do I really know how to go brand a cow, or do I really know how to go rappelling down a cliff? No. I do the recreational, half-assed version of all these manly activities and then try to keep that kind of Zen masculinity, like, "I'm a man of nature."”

Knows Men Trying Kind Half Know How Activity Mountain Versions Brands Texas Cows Masculinity Cliffs Manly Colorado Cabins Part Time Rappelling

Author:David Gordon Green

“White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn't brought up to hate. But hate isn't the half of it. I grew up in the vast encircling presumption of whiteness - that primary quality of being which knows itself, its passions, only against an otherness that has to be dehumanized. I grew up in white silence that was utterly obsessional. Race was the theme whatever the topic.”

Knows Trying Stills Hate Passion White Race Half Silence Quality Crime Grew Speech Grew Up Racism Claims Primaries Theme Topics Hate Crime Presumption Whiteness Otherness Hate Speech

Author:Adrienne Rich

“The enormous influence of novelty--the way in which it quickens observations, sharpens sensations, and exalts sentiment--is not half enough taken note of by us, and is to me a very sorrowful matter. And yet, if we try to obtain perpetual change, change itself will become monotonous.”

Ifs Way Trying Matter Enough Half Taken Influence Notes Enormous Observation Sensations Sentiments Perpetual Novelty Monotonous Sorrowful

Book:Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things

Source: Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things

“I have so many children. Half of mine are the ones that just must climb the tree, must climb the mountain, must get dirty, must jump off, flip into the pool sideways because it's just who they are. So you try to give them as much guidance and prepare them but they are who they are.”

Giving Trying Children Half Tree Mines Mountain Dirty Guidance Climbs Pool Flip Sideways

Author:Angelina Jolie

“I could not conceive that [fans] actually wanted me to sign something. It took a long time for me to figure out (a) just say 'Thank you' and sign the thing, and (b) smile in the picture, because if you try to just half-smile you're going to look constipated.”

Ifs Trying Looks Long Wanted Half Fans Figures Fame Long Time Saying Thank You

Author:Joss Whedon

“With God's help, I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there. And because of that, I'm doing this. I'm making records, I'm touring. I was so involved in just getting brain damaged, I wasn't doing anything. I had great ideas, many notebooks filled with notes, some of them I can read and some of them I just can't read, but I really didn't do anything constructive, it was all just good ideas. Now I'm trying to lead a constructive life a day at a time.”

Trying Years I Can Ideas Whole Helping Stories Brain Half Records Involved Drink Filled Notes Nine Good Ideas Constructive Touring Notebook Great Idea Half A Year I Can Read

Author:Ringo Starr

“I'm not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price.”

Trying Bigs Half Drink Shots Big Shots

Author:Steve Martin

“there are things you mustn't even try to explain. They either become trite or they tie you down to something that's only half true.”

Trying Half Ties

Book:A door fell shut

Source: A door fell shut

“What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated.”

Trying Has Beens Made Moments Might Purpose Hours Half Consciousness Activity Despair Filled Demon Might Have Been Energetic Being Me Sap

Book:George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus

Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus

“I'm pretty cautious and not very athletic, so I've only had really dumb injuries, like sprained ankles and allergic reactions. I did have to go to the hospital after slicing my finger while trying to cut a Kaiser roll in half.”

Trying Half Cutting Fingers Reactions Dumb Injury Hospitals Athletic Cautious Ankles Allergic Really Dumb Allergic Reactions

Author:Mara Wilson

“I run a lot. I love running. I try to run at least half an hour a day.”

Trying Running Hours Half

Author:Elisabeth Harnois

“The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them.”

Trying Humans Long Human Beings Attention Half Modern Average Attention Span

Author:Meg Rosoff

“Jamie Oliver's lunch is soup, half a papaya with lime, ciabatta with mozzarella and prosciutto. The dear boy is not sharing the same planet as the rest of us. Is this lunacy supposed to be a practical suggestion for a harassed housewife trying to drag her children off to school?”

Trying Children School Half Boys Planets Dear Practicals Supposed To Be Lunch Drag Suggestions Soup Housewife Jamie Limes Lunacy Mozzarella Papaya

Author:Terry Wogan

“I think the best thing to try to do is allow your daughter or your son to know that they can come to you for anything. If you can break down that wall so they don't feel embarrassed by telling you things, that's half the battle.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Trying Half Break Son Wall Battle Daughter Best Things Embarrassed Breaking Down Our Daughter Your Daughter Your Son

Author:Channing Tatum

“Because of my New Line upbringing, half my heart goes to scrappy independents, and half goes to mainstream, down-the-middle pop culture events. And even with those, to try to keep something fresh and original with them and try to do things that the majors miss.”

Trying Heart Culture Lines Half Middle Missing Events My Heart Majors Originals Pops Mainstream Pop Culture Upbringing

Author:Michael De Luca

“It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.”

People Trying Wells Artist Half Records Campaigns Selling Convince

Author:James Vincent McMorrow

“Pregnancy is a uniquely intimate relationship between two people. All of us luxuriate in this relationship once, and half of us are lucky enough to be able to do it all over again a second time, from the other side as it were. Never again outside of pregnancy can we be so truly intwined with someone else, no matter how hard we try.”

People Trying Two Matter Hard Enough Able Sides Half Lucky Intimate Pregnancy Intimate Relationships

Book:Making Babies: The Science of Pregnancy

Source: Making Babies: The Science of Pregnancy

“We think that we have to do so many things and it's unfortunate, entire modern society is besotted with the do-ables, we have to do this, we have to have a half-hour of yoga, an hour of meditation, 2 hours of this, and then 12 hours of work and non-stop electronic gadgets, gizmos etc. etc., and then go home and take care of the family, and then take the children to wherever, and what tends to happen is we do way too much. The society does way too much. One of the greatest things in healing is try for just one day to do nothing. Very difficult.”

“I actually did do a musical many years ago with John Waters called Cry-Baby, but technically it was only half me - it wasn't me singing. Tim's [ Burton] the only person brave enough to actually let me try to sing.”

Trying Years Persons Enough Water Half Cry Baby Singing Years Ago Let Me Brave Musical Cry Baby

Author:Johnny Depp

“The interest in Wisdom is fading. Soon there will not be enough left to support the aphorism, even though it tries to amuse by half-mocking the Wisdom it propounds.”

Trying Enough Wisdom Left Interest Half Support Aphorism Fading

Author:Mason Cooley

“Where there's more of singing and less of sighing, Where there's more of giving and less of buying, And a man makes friends without half trying That's where the West begins.”

Men Giving Trying Happiness Friendship Half Friends Singing West Generosity Buying

Book:Out where the West Begins

Source: Out where the West Begins

“...when we are going through the aftereffects of a bad jolt in loss of money or pride--and both are closely connected--we should get off to ourselves, make an honest appraisal of our shortcomings, and try to find our weak spots and bolster them up before starting in again. First on the program we should figure out a plan to eat. The money we have lost is a small matter; if we can keep our pride and strong faith in ourselves the battle ahead is half won before we start.”

Ifs Should Trying Firsts Matter Lost Strong Loss Half Plans Honest Figures Failure Pride Battle Program Weak Perseverance Starting Connected Spots Shortcomings Appraisal Strong Faith Weak Spots

Author:Sue Sanders

“If you cut yourself, if you hate yourself, if you eat, if you don’t eat. If your parents split up, if your parents hit you, if your mom tells you you’re a piece of trash. If you got in a car crash and half your face is gone - wake up in the morning and give yourself a shot. Do it. Not for music, not for any reason other than the fact that you are alive and you were given the grace to wake up another day. So do it, man. Just freaking get out there and try.”

Ifs Men Giving Trying Reason Facts Faces Hate Given Parent Half Morning Gone Grace Pieces Cutting Alive Car Mom Shots Wake Up Your Face Splits Crash Hate You Trash Your Mom Another Day Car Crash

Author:Aaron Gillespie

“What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do.”

Ifs Trying Would Be Pleasure Half Expectations

Author:William J. H. Boetcker

“A non-Communist premier with Communist ministers would be like a woman trying to stay half pregnant.”

Trying Would Be Half Ministers Communist Pregnant

Author:Charles E. Bohlen

“I try not to look at stories on the Internet because I don't want to psych myself out. I kinda half to stay off the Internet. I'm not thick-skinned enough. I get too sensitive. I don't want it to effect what I'm doing.”

Want Trying Looks Enough Stories Half Effects Internet Sensitive Thick Psych

Author:Emma Stone