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The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be.

Stuff with a group, stuff where there are other people around, I'll try that.

I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.

There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down.

Sometimes I try to take a nap before shows. That clears my head.

God, why do I give interviews to 'the Guardian'? They always try to dissect you, and I don't really think about stuff in the way that you're asking me these questions.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

I think anyone about to leave one job not surprisingly would use their knowledge, their experience, their skills drawn from their previous positions to try and earn a living in the future. That's what happens in all interviews.

Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.

I told the President, I told Rahm Emanuel and others in the administration that I thought the policy they took to try to bring about negotiations is counter-productive, because when you give the Palestinians hope that the United States will do its negotiating for them, they are not going to sit down and talk.

Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.

I don't think that Yahoo or any other Internet company should try to become a television network. We will be nowhere if we have to create our own content.

I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.

In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

I make paintings, try to get others to look at them and hopefully buy them.

My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity.

I'm a survivor of life. I try to give the glory to God and appreciate what's happening to me.

Conversations with my mother, father, my grandparents, as I've grown up have obviously driven me towards wanting to try and make a difference as much as possible.

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.

I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.

In business, you try to solve problems.

I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn't work anyway.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

The Berlin Defence suited my strategy for the match. I had a defensive strategy - Actually, I had in my pocket some other sharper stuff to fall back on - but first I wanted to try the defensive strategy with Black and it worked so well.