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I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything.

I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.

When you're up for an award at the Oscars, try as you might, it's hard to concentrate on the show.

But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to become salesmen for what we believe, and part of being a salesman is being effective.

Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint.

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I'm on and to relish each day as a gift.

We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles.

In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.

When I'm onstage they know I'm honest, and I try to be as humble as I can.

You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.

What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye.

I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.

Seven years ago, my father and I realized that our relationship was extremely unique, especially in the African-American community. He raised me to not only understand the fundamentals of basketball and to try to be a player with a high basketball IQ, but he wanted me to understand that my image and my name meant more than stats.

One of my mottos not only just in skating but in life in general and I try to enforce it as well, is like no regrets and just like going for it.

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.

I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

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.