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“I try to combine my work with my family, that's what I aspire to. I don't say that's the only thing. It's not all work and family, because otherwise you would be saying no to the many other things in life and there are many other things.”

Trying Would Be My Family Things In Life Aspire Saying No

Author:Connie Nielsen

“It would be far to general a statement to try and describe the daily life of an actor in Hollywood, but I am quite certain that cappucinos have something to do with it.”

Trying Would Be Certain Actors Hollywood Statements Daily Life

Author:Corin Nemec

“I don't really talk about my personal life. It's a strange and funny and weird thing. Sometimes you have a conversation with someone and the paparazzi snaps a picture of you and people decide you're dating. If I try to answer everything people say, I would be up all night.”

People Ifs Trying Sometimes Would Be Night Answers Strange Conversation Dating Personal Life All Night Snaps Paparazzi Weird Things Up All Night

Author:Tracee Ellis Ross

“I think I would be making a mistake to actively try and just do everything completely different from 'Gilmore Girls.”

Thinking Trying Different Would Be Girl Mistake Making Mistakes Gilmore Girls

Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up using pipe tobacco. It burned slower, and it wasn't as harsh on my throat... It also smelled better.”

Trying Would Be Type Throat Burned Harsh Pipe Tobacco

Author:David Strathairn

“How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say 'No' at the same time, it sounds like neighing - yet people are perpetually doing it in novels. If they did it in real life they would be locked up.”

People Ifs Writing Trying Real Done Would Be Earth Sound Novel Laughing Real Life Locked Locked Up

Author:Hilaire Belloc

“Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.”

Trying Ideas Would Be Three Decision Careers Streets Cards Naive Strategic Canals

Author:Benjamin Walker

“Can you have more than one major MISSION pervading your life? NO. That would be like coming to a fork in the road and trying to go both ways by straddling it.”

Way Trying Would Be Majors Missions Forks Fork In The Road

Author:Charles Garfield

“Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.”

Trying Character Would Be Copies Temperament

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“I always make it a rule to let the other fellow fire first. If a man wants to fight, I argue the question with him and try to show him how foolish it would be. If he can't be dissuaded, why then the fun begins but I always let him have first crack. Then when I fire, you see, I have the verdict of self-defence on my side. I know that he is pretty certain in his hurry, to miss. I never do.”

Ifs Knows Men Want Trying Firsts Self Shows Would Be Certain Fighting Fun Sides Fire Missing Fellows Arguing Foolish Cracks Defence Verdict Self Defence

Author:Ben Thompson

“It would be nice to make a movie that other people want to make, because every one of these movies, I basically have to find the only company in the world that's willing to make it, and it's always a big challenge. I end up spending a tremendous amount of energy and time trying to get money to make these movies and it's exhausting.”

People World Want Trying Ends Bigs Would Be Energy Challenges Company Nice Willing Amount Spending Being Nice Exhausting Get Money Big Challenges

Author:Darren Aronofsky

“In earlier days, even as a child, the beauty of landscapes was quite clear to me. A background for the soul's moods. Now dangerous moments occur when Nature tries to devour me; at such times I am annihilated, but at peace. This would be fine for old people but I... I am my life's debtor, for I have given promises.”

People Trying Children Soul Moments Would Be Given Nature Clear Dangerous Fine Promise Mood Backgrounds Landscape Old People Debtors

Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

“I am not saying I will vote against John Ashcroft because he is pro-life, .. But let me say if someone was nominated for attorney general who was vehemently pro choice -- who in his or her career spent decades trying to find ways to expand the law abortion at nine months would be perfectly legal -- wouldn't you be more upset and raise more of a voice than against a nominee who was simply pro-choice?.”

Ifs Way Trying Would Be Law Choices Voice Careers Months Vote Let Me Raises Decades Nine Upset Abortion Attorney Pro Life Nine Months

Author:Charles Schumer

“As a little kid, I used to lock myself in my room and put on my Whitney Houston CD's and pretend to be her and try and hit every single note that she hit. I used to dream that one day that would be me.”

Trying Littles Dream Would Be Kids Used Rooms One Day Notes Locks Little Kid Cds Houston Whitney

Author:Ricki-Lee Coulter

“Medusa was fascinating to work with because I gave her a snake's body so that she could pull herself with her hands which gave her a very creepy aura. I didn't want to animate cosmic gowns. Most Medusas you see in the classics have flowing robes which would be mad to even try to animate.”

Want Trying Body Hands Would Be Mad Fascinating Cosmic Snakes Creepy Robes Auras Gowns Medusa

Author:Ray Harryhausen

“I mean, some people say, 'Oh, God, if [Jobs] got run over by a bus, Apple would be in trouble.' And, you know, I think it wouldn't be a party, but there are really capable people at Apple. My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Life Trying Mean Enough Whole Would Be Running Jobs Party Trouble Team Capable Apples Executives Good Enough Bus Successors

Author:Steve Jobs

“I have so many evil plans, I'm just trying to find the one which would be best right now!”

Trying Would Be Evil Plans Right Now Evil Plans

Author:Colin Mochrie

“An aged painter cannot help but accept the fact that his work belongs in the past. Younger painters have leaped into the phenomenon called contemporary, where it would be foolish of me to try to enter. But I can claim my own phenomenon.”

Trying I Can Facts Helping Would Be Past My Own Accepting Claims Foolish Contemporary Painter Phenomenon

Author:Joseph Plaskett

“What if, instead of being afraid of even talking about death, we saw our lives in some ways as preparation for it. What if we were taught to ponder it and reflect on it and talk about it and enter it and rehearse it and try it on?What if, rather than being cast out and defined by some terminal category, you were identified as someone in the middle of a transformation that could deepen your soul, open your heart, and all the while-even if and particularly when you were dying-you would be supported by and be part of a community?”

“Living on the street as a kid changed the way I looked at everything. It was a different time and while it had its dangers, it was nothing like it would be today. It was the Summer of Love and there was a real sense of community among us. We were hippies who looked out for each other instead of trying to rip each other off. We only had to watch out for the police who liked to roust us just on general principles, and the kids who came in from the suburbs to do a little hippie-bashing.”

Way Trying Littles Different Real Would Be Kids Today Community Principles Watches Streets Danger Changed Summer Police Rip Hippie Living On Suburbs Different Times

Author:Charles de Lint

“I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?”

Knows Giving Trying Mean Littles Would Be Ability Periods Meetings Making Money Confused Confusing Erode

Author:Bill Gates

“I'm trying to separate myself from other people by having songs that would be considered - technically - original things. I don't seek out mashups. I'm associated with the whole mashup movement, and it's too bad because I'm not a huge fan of them.”

People Trying Whole Would Be Song Fans Movement Huge Originals Mashups

Author:Girl Talk

“He[ Italo Calvino] always said it would be impossible to try to make films out of his books, though he hoped it would happen because that's where the money was.”

Trying Said Book Happens Would Be Film Impossible

Author:Giovanna Cau

“I have really got it into my head to try to be United States Senator, and, if I could have your support, my chances would be reasonably good. But I know, and acknowledge, that you have as just claims to the place as I have; and therefore I cannot ask you to yield to me, if you are thinking of becoming a candidate, yourself. If, however, you are not, then I should like to be remembered affectionately by you; and also to have you make a mark for me with the Anti-Nebraska members down your way.”

Source: LINCOLN – Complete 7 Volume Edition: Biographies, Speeches and Debates, Civil War Telegrams, Letters, Presidential Orders & Proclamations: Including the Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt & 3 Biographies: The Every-day Life of the President, Lincoln by Carl Shurz and Abraham Lincoln by Joseph H. Choate

“The thing is that what you try to do when you play is you try to play not below a certain level. In other words, it can be a special day where it would be phenomenal, but if it's not below a certain level, that's the goal. You know, that's what you want to do. That's why you practice and so on.”

Ifs Knows Want Trying Play Would Be Certain Goal Levels Practice Special What You Want Phenomenal

Author:Itzhak Perlman

“I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.”

Trying Years Sometimes Would Be Lying Night Imagine Periods Odd Awake Being The Best Seventies Awake At Night

Author:Michael Dirda

“The purest case of an intelligence explosion would be an Artificial Intelligence rewriting its own source code. The key idea is that if you can improve intelligence even a little, the process accelerates. It's a tipping point. Like trying to balance a pen on one end - as soon as it tilts even a little, it quickly falls the rest of the way.”

Ifs Way Trying Littles Ideas Ends Would Be Fall Process Cases Source Keys Balance Code Pens Artificial Intelligence Artificial Explosions Accelerate Rewriting Tipping Tilt Tipping Point

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“A German merchant of the fifteenth century asked an eminent professor where he should send his son for a good business education. The professor responded that German universities would be sufficient to teach the boy addition and subtraction but he would have to go to Italy to learn multiplication and division. Before you smile indulgently, try multiplying or even just adding the Roman numerals CCLXIV, MDCCCIX, DCL, and MLXXXI without first translating them.”

Source: Beyond Numeracy

“Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless; this would be to overcome nature, to reshape God's handiwork. If God bade man annihilate the passions he has given him, God would bid him be and not be; He would contradict himself. He has never given such a foolish commandment, there is nothing like it written on the heart of man, and what God will have a man do, He does not leave to the words of another man. He speaks Himself; His words are written in the secret heart.”

Source: Emile: Or, On Education

“I am strong-willed, and I am driven, and I am passionate... but I don't have... a central cause... a motivating cause, I don't know what that would be... other than trying to tell the truth when I work.”

Knows Trying Would Be Strong Causes Passionate Driven Telling The Truth Strong Willed I Am Strong

Author:Jennifer Beals

“In the name of Israel's God, if every man would do right, and when he has done what he knows is right, then stops till he knows what next, there never would be a jar in the camp. And I defy the man to come forward that ever led so large a people in such difficult and trying circumstances, in so much peace, as I have led this people during this campaign, with the help of God and my brethren.”

People Ifs Knows Men Trying Done Helping Would Be Next Names Difficult He Man Circumstances Israel Campaigns Every Man Camps Jars Brethren

Author:Brigham Young

“There was a great director who directed a picture that I wrote who barred me from the set quite appropriately and said, "I'm sorry, Jim. When you're directing, you don't need to know everything. You need the illusion that you do." And, you know, and I WOULD be there behind him trying to signal the actors in, you know, in a way I wasn't even aware of.”

Knows Way Needs Trying Said Would Be Actors Behinds Directors Illusion Sorry I'm Sorry Signals

Author:James L. Brooks

“My agent called me and said, they watched you do Chopped Champions and they thought you'd be good for this competition. What do you think? And I said, well, what do you think? He said he thought it would be great and I said let's do it. When you decide to do this, you don't really think that you're going to win it. I thought it would be fun, good to test my mettle; games are fun like that. Why not? I'll try it.”

Thinking Trying Wells Said Would Be Games Winning Fun Tests Competition Be Good Agents Champion Why Not Mettle

Author:Geoffrey Zakarian

“Millions of Americans would still despair in the eight long years of the Depression that lay ahead and many of their individual dreams would be dashed on the rocks of economic hardship. But collectively, the country was in a new place, with a new confidence that the federal government would actively try to solve problems rather than fiddle or cater to the rich. Hope was no longer for Pollyannas; the cynics about the American system were in retreat.”

Source: The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope

“Most private traders on a losing streak keep trying to trade their way out of a hole. A loser thinks a successful trade is just around the corner, and that his luck is about to turn. He keeps putting on more trades and increases his size, all the while digging himself a deeper hole in the ice. The sensible thing to do would be to reduce your trading size and then stop and review your system.”

“We're a young species; We're only 175,000 years old. On the evolutionary scale, life on this planet is 4 billion years old. We're 175,000 years old. So we're trying something out. Who wouldn't think it would be better to have the most stuff to take as much as you could? As we do that, we see why the moral prophets come along and say, don't even store into barns, right? It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. We've seen we plunder nature. We plunder our neighbor. We create enemies because we're against each other.”

“You might think of a haunting as a loop of video or audio tape playing itself over and over for you to watch. Trying to interact with it would be akin to trying to interact with a show on your TV: sure, you can turn it off or change the channel, but I wouldn't expect the actors to suddenly stop and talk to you directly.”

Thinking Trying Shows Might Would Be Turns Actors Watches Tvs Video Tape Haunting Loops Audio

Author:Loyd Auerbach

“My father told me never to take my foot off a ladder to kick at someone who was kicking at me. When I did that, I would no longer be climbing. While they are kicking, my father told me, I should keep stepping. They can kick only one time. If I continued to climb, they would be left behind. In trying to hurt me, to impede my progress, they would get left behind because they allowed themselves to get sidetracked from their agenda.”

Ifs Inspirational Should Trying Would Be Father Left Hurt Behinds Progress Feet Kicks Climbs Agendas Climbing One Time Ladders Left Behind Hurt Me Kicking

Author:Steve Harvey

“I had always suspected that trying to play golf in the company of big-time pros and a gallery would be something like walking naked into choir practice.”

Trying Play Bigs Would Be Company Practice Walking Golf Naked Gallery Choir

Book:DOGGED VICTIMS OF INEXORABLE FATE

Source: DOGGED VICTIMS OF INEXORABLE FATE

“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.”

People Trying Hard Would Be Faces Forget Forget About Me

Author:Wiz Khalifa

“I try to just be open to what the next experience is and how it makes me feel, just reading a project, or trying to get involved with a project, or thinking about a project, and what particular emotional flavor that brings. To me, it's never really about planning the next thing, or the career arc. It's about investigating how I feel, from project to project, and finding things that I haven't explored and what that would be like.”

Thinking Feels Trying Would Be Reading Next Careers Havens Emotional Particular Involved Findings Projects Planning Flavor Get Involved Arcs Investigating Feels Just

Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor

“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.”

“As I've gotten older, I can look at myself more clearly and own the things that I'm good at and work on the things that I'm not. Like, I am not skinny. I know that if I were to lose a little weight I'd literally have more time in the morning because I know clothes would fit better. And now I can look at those things more practically. Instead of being like, "What does that say about me?," now I'm just like, "That would be great to sleep in an extra fifteen minutes because I wasn't trying on everything in my closet."”

Ifs Knows Trying Looks Littles Doe I Can Would Be Loses Sleep Morning Minutes Fit Clothes Weight Extras More Time Fifteen Closets Skinny

Author:Mindy Kaling

“You don't have to either choose to save the world or become a sellout. I say to people, "Listen dude, how can you save the world if you can't even save yourself? Why don't you try to affect one person's life who's in your life, and that would be historic."”

People Ifs World Trying Persons Would Be Historic Save The World Save Yourself

Author:Immortal Technique

“I consider myself a logical person and, you know, a lot of people try to categorize me in one way or another. You know, there are some of the things that I say that probably would be considered very much non-conservative. But I don't think really conservative or liberal; I think: What makes sense? What's going to help the American people? What's going to give them what they need? Not only in health care but in terms of jobs, in terms of education, in terms of a whole host of issues.”

People Thinking Knows Way Needs Giving Trying Persons Whole Helping Would Be Care Jobs Term Issues Conservative One Way Health Care Make Sense Logical Host

Author:Benjamin Carson

“...I would be a liar and my fans would hate me if I said to them, 'Oh, we're perfect and everything is great.' We have situations just like everyone else. We're not out in public trying to kill each other, but it's real. We love each other.”

Ifs Trying Said Real Would Be Hate Perfect Situation Fans Liars Love Each Other Hate Me

Author:Mary J. Blige

“I'm glad I've given up drugs and alcohol. It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He's pathetic. It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young.”

Trying Looks Would Be Young Given Drug Alcohol Glad Awful Monkeys Pathetic Given Up Drugs And Alcohol Keith Arthritis

Author:Elton John

“There would be no population explosion if people who are trying to keep the wolf from the door wouldn't let the stork fly in through the window.”

People Ifs Trying Would Be Doors Window Population Explosions Population Explosion Storks

Author:Evan Esar

“I remember watching steak being cooked on TV and wanting to try it. As a special treat, my mother cooked it for me, and I thought this would be the time I would eat with a knife and fork. Alas, I ate it with chopsticks!”

Trying Would Be Remember Mother Special Tvs Treats Knives Alas Forks Steak Chopsticks

Author:Nobu Matsuhisa

“The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In such situations, they become like ancient statues. If they kept the merest scarf on, they would be lewd. Your bourgeois woman will always try to cover her nakedness.”

Ifs Trying Art Would Be Lying Secret Situation Ancient Shed Veils Nobility Statues Bourgeois Scarves

Author:Honore de Balzac