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I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit.

Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you.

I always try hard to arrange all media in a way so that it expresses what I want - this is not limited to one medium alone and varies from case to case.

I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.

When I do an album I try to find a producer that's excited about something that they want me to sing, and I check with the record company to find out what they think they can sell - which is their No. 1 priority.

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.

I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.

I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream.

My parents made us do everything, try everything.

Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.

I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize.

Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.

I try hard to be a good Catholic.

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

I try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don't see enough of that.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Typically what happens is, somebody drags an idea from the past that worked in an old set of logics that they try to apply to the new one. And it doesn't work.

I really worked to try and be creative enough on the guitar parts so those who aren't real educated would know that there was some difficulty in doing it.

Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.

So whatever it is you want, need or desire or just like to have, you better try to get it now, 'cause this is the only time there is.

Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.

I am a better running back every time I step on the field. I try to get better each game, each summer, each season.

I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a drum machine I'll use a drum machine. If it needs a drummer, I'll use a real drummer.

Every country I would go to, even if it was just on a modeling job, I would go to their markets. If I went to Morocco for 'Elle' magazine, I would be in the spice markets during my off time and just come back with a suitcase full of stuff that I really wanted to try.

I've always been an unselfish guy, and that's the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability - not only for myself but for my teammates.

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.