Trying Quotes

I live on a ranch in Texas and do my own thing. And I don't care what anyone has to say about it. My joke is that the only people I'm trying to please are myself and my fans, because they're the ones buying my records. And I have the best, most loyal fan base ever.

I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series.

Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.

Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished.

I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else.

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.

Growth comes out of a healthy competitive atmosphere, not trying to choose a particular path forward.

I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them what they can and can't do with their bodies.

Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me.

I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.

I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.

When I moved to Stanford I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger implications of fractional quantum hall discovery.

The only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge relief after trying to get my cell phone replaced.

We incorporate various electronic devices - the echo plugs and things like that. Actually, all we're trying to do is make that sound musical. As opposed to just making sounds, we do musical things with them.

You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I'm just a young buck out here trying to keep in that same circle with the rest of 'em.

I'm in the process of trying to find something that I could do on my own.

Having decisions made not in midnight deals but in the light of objective evidence and after consulting those who will be affected should itself provide some reassurance that the EU is trying to reform itself.

There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them.

I don't need many things. I don't need glamour and attention to be happy. I'm very happy being settled and working my butt off and trying to win grand slams.

I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my role as President of my people. According to my conscience, I am trying to abide by the right. My vision is peace. My vision is prosperity.

What we should be trying to do is to encourage people to establish private retirement accounts and help them take pressure off the Social Security system.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

In general President Obama's policies have been very, very skewed and very, very extreme. Like on healthcare for example, I don't think that trying to ram healthcare through was a smart idea politically, because he wasted a lot of capital and now he doesn't have any of that same capital with even his own party that he used to have.

We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design.

I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties.

Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.

I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned.

I've just been working hard, trying to get some good stuff to come out.