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I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.

We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main thing about a building like this is its upkeep. It needs central heating and it needs central air conditioning.

Derek Jeter used to come to me and try to tell you what Joe Torre is all about, he's a good man, he's this, he's that, but like I tell Derek Jeter, that's you. It's one thing that they treat you a certain way; you don't feel what other people feel.

I try not to dwell on the past. I'm not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person.

Free time keeps me going. It's just something that's always been a part of my life. I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.

I do eat well. I try to love my body. That is what I tell my daughter. I say, 'Love every bite of food. Love your body. We're all going to be dead soon.' Actually I don't say that last thing to her.

I think you tend to try, during the time you've got off, to forget about the film. It was such a total world. I mean, the sets were claustrophobic, and as soon as you were on there, you were right back into it.

At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know.

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.

All you'd have to do is get a sad look, and he'd try to do something for you.

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point.

You know, you go home and you try on a new mascara, and I guess a male CEO can't do that.

We go old-school during the summer, like swimming or setting up lemonade stands. I try to teach my kids to make their own fun.

I just want to try and be in projects that are exciting to me.

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

I meditate and do yoga. I sit cross-legged and try not to levitate too much.

We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us.

I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can.

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

I've always said the players don't build up rivalries themselves, people from the outside build up the rivalries. I just want to play good golf. I want to try and keep winning golf tournaments.

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too.

And shortly after that, when I try to get access to those soldiers, to ask them what in the world was going on, I was told that they did not work for me and I had no right to have access to any one of them.

I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it.