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I try to get 11 or 12 hours of sleep a night. It sounds excessive but that's really what I need.

Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don't even want to try. I don't agree with that approach.

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.

There are powerful emotions that bring two people together in wonderful harmony in a marriage. Satan knows this, and would tempt you to try these emotions outside of marriage. Do not stir emotions meant to be used only in marriage.

I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.

I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.

Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself.

You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this.

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

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.