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If you are charged with this responsibility of enhancing interrogations, or using soldiers to enhance interrogations to find Saddam, and you're above the law for all practical purposes, you might try some unusual techniques. Now we know that, in fact, they did.

I suspect I'm the only politician in America who won an election in this last cycle with TV ads saying I was going to try to pass the first single-payer system in America.

If you never try, you'll never know what you are capable of.

You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up.

Yeah, I've always sung, and I always try to find a way for music to be in my life.

I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it.

Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.

Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along.

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.

It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

By the time I became chairman and there was more of a feeling of urgency, there was a willingness to accept more forceful measures to try to deal with the inflation.

So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.

All I can say is that I'm going to try to coach the way I've coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it.

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.

All actors almost always try to steal some of their wardrobe.

My idea of beauty is somebody that doesn't have to try too much, someone who is effortless and fresh.

I just try to concentrate on concentrating.

I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz.

I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter.

There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.

I don't need to hang out in a posse and try to act cool.

Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.

It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful.

You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.