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Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.

I would try and sing along with bands that I like but it sounded so atrocious that I couldn't.

People have no confidence that Washington, both sides of aisle, are coming together to try and do what's right for the economy.

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.

I never stop looking for things to try and make myself better.

Even though I'm not a competitive athlete, I have to still maintain things and try to keep myself fit because I am at that age where I need to make sure to get those regular checkups and make sure everything is in tact.

We try and stay out of the corporate side of it. The band has never compromised. At some point in our career we could have made a certain type of record and sold millions of units, as they are called.

We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare its neighbors and others. But the choice is really up to Iran and we're going to keep working to try to come out with the right decision.

I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go.

All I can do is try to create the best show possible, and I feel we've truly done that.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

I think that whenever there's a good script we try to make that happen, but it's all based off of a good story, a good script, but I don't believe you should do it just because it's African-American.

I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.

I try to do things I haven't been able to before.

If there's a severe recession, the automatic stabilizers will come into effect, and we will still try to reduce the structural deficit, but we will not try to keep cutting the budget so that we keep worsening a severe recession.

I try so hard to live in the moment - I don't think ahead very much.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.

Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try.

When it's a bad movie you want to release it quietly. You try to keep it a secret like an STD.

I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress.

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.

I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

I try to live in the moment, every moment.

It's true I always try to be as seductive as possible but I wouldn't be here if I couldn't play tennis.

I've learned over the years that if you start thinking about the race, it stresses you out a little bit. I just try to relax and think about video games, what I'm gonna do after the race, what I'm gonna do just to chill. Stuff like that to relax a little before the race.

There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.

When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff, or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?

If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.