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For years, I sort of would try to write a story that somehow fit the title. And I don't think it happened for maybe another four years that I actually thought of a story, the plot of a story that corresponded to that phrase.

I have a very eclectic iPod. So I've got my cardio people - so it's anything from Beyonce to some Jay-Z to Janelle Monae, her song 'Tightrope,' that's a good cardio song. And then I've got Sting. I've got Mary J. Blige. I've got The Beatles. I've got Michael Jackson. I try to pick the songs that I personally love.

It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.

A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?

I try to keep focused on the things that really make me happy and just do those same things.

I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced.

I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.

I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.

I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.

I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.

I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do, and you don't need to beat yourself up about it. I'm not white-picket-fence perfect.

We try to make earth-friendly decisions whenever we can, as it's part of our brand DNA.

I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.

I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them.

For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.

A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.

Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs.

I want to try and be instinctive as a writer and director.

In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively.

I think it bothers people to see people that are happy and successful. So they try to find what's wrong with them.

The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.

Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.

You don't try to do more than you should.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.

What I don't do is try to like become whoever I'm rapping with. The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL.

All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way.

But I'm also a music lover, and I'll always try a lot of different things.