Tried Quotes

I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's.

I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.

I grew up in a food-obsessed Italian family, so food was always front and center in my life. I was a food obsessed person who morphed into a comedian and tried to figure out a way to make fun of my cake and eat it too.

Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done.

Every time I went into the studio some engineer tried to impress me with how they're going to capture my sound with all kinds of tricks. But they limited the sound and never allowed me to play how I felt.

I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?

The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.

I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand.

I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.

And one of the things I've tried to do in my first months in office is to give more Georgians - reporters and members of the general public alike - a closer look at how their government works.

I've tried to lead a progressive, activist government.

I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.

I'm a performer. I've tried everything there is.

I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.

Then we tried to come up with ideas for the sketches, and then, when we actually shot the movie, we really just sat down - never previewed the movie - we just really winged it.

Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.

If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat.

And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people.

I've always tried to be nice to people, so that sort of translates into popularity, I guess.

People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.

I'm not going to deny the fact that I've tried pot. I hated it.

As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.

Columbia tried to put me behind other groups, so I didn't wanna wait, they let me out of the contract and I'm glad they did.

Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.

You know, I've certainly gone through periods, once I got into this business, where I tried to adopt maybe a more sophisticated style, 'cause they give you all these free clothes.

Foxes was a movie that didn't do a lot of business but it didn't do too badly critically and eventually they offered me other things. The interesting thing was that next I tried a film called Star Man, which Michael Douglas was producing.

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

My femininity is always something I've tried to preserve in this dog-eat-dog world.