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There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that.

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

It's not really that I didn't want to perform at all. What I didn't want to do was try to put together a band, rehearse, on my own. You know what I mean?

I try to deal with my serious reading before work.

People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.

Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.

My cooking philosophy, what I try to do, is to make a cuisine where the produce and the product shines, compared to some current trends that are maybe more adding additional things, like molecular cuisine, with a lot of additives and chemicals, which are now showing that they could be bad for your health.

I'm gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.

In the studio, I do try to have a thought in my head, so that it's not like a blank stare.

The thing I thought about doing it was it's Comic Relief and you've got to be funny. So although I did try to sing properly it obviously has hilarious results when you can't sing.

God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.

But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.

The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.

Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly.

I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh.

Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.

Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN.

The endorsement process is an evolution. What you try to do is you endorse someone that you believe in and their ideas and their solutions align with yours.

Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.

I keep a great organiser, I try to keep my priorities in the right place.

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.

I don't have a grand master plan, but I try to be thoughtful when I can and also silly. It's part of the fun.

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.