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Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing.
Henry Rollins
Trying
Kill
Different
Cold
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You should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without a clear idea of what you are trying to achieve.
Steve Jobs
Never
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Hakeem Olajuwon
Natural
Key
Fashion
Look
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If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan
Obstacles
Roadblocks
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I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.
Michael Jordan
Accept
Trying
Fail
Everyone
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I've made mistakes. Like, bringing people to your level who don't deserve to be there. They're trying to bite off your so-called fame, make a name off of you. I think I did a lot of that - allowed people to be relevant in my life who really aren't relevant to me at all.
Odell Beckham, Jr.
Allowed
Bite
Bringing
Deserve
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I'm trying to do big things. It doesn't matter whether it's on the field or off the field.
Odell Beckham, Jr.
Big
Field
Matter
Off
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Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to the sound it made while being dropped down a flight of stairs.
Francis Crick
Structure
Piano
Flight
Stair
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
Laini Taylor
About
Chances
Easier
Find
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Trying harder doesn’t work for me. Slowly I’ve learned to pray for God’s help and He has become my greatest love and desire.
Francis Chan
Trying
Harder
Doesn't
Work
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A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.
Orhan Pamuk
Writer
Someone
Spends
Years
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I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.
Orson Welles
Spent
Most
Life
Mature
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Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.
Patrick Dempsey
Housekeeping
Incredibly
Difficult
With
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The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.
Patrick Dempsey
Hardest
Thing
Having
Kids
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When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.
Hermann Hesse
Childhood
Discoveries
Eternal
Glow
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I'm trying to figure out, Chairman of what Board? People come up to me and seriously say: 'Well, what are you Chairman of?' And I can't answer them.
Frank Sinatra
Answer
Board
Chairman
Come
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'Playboy' was not a sex magazine as far as I was concerned. Sex was simply part of the total package; I was trying to bring sex into the fold of a healthy lifestyle.
Hugh Hefner
Bring
Concerned
Far
Fold
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Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.
Quentin Tarantino
Always
Any
Complete
Complete Freedom
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Being called up to the national team is about going with them, playing the best you possibly can, and trying to win. That's how I understand it.
Gerard Pique
About
Being
Best
Going
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As long as I am progressing and trying to do my best for the team that is what really matters.
Alex Iwobi
Best
Long
Matters
Progressing
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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Always
Body
Destroying
Difficult
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
B. F. Skinner
Always
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Some men say that they should be satisfied with the abolition of untouchability only, leaving the caste system alone. The aim of abolition of untouchability alone without trying to abolish the inequalities inherent in the caste system is a rather low aim.
B. R. Ambedkar
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Abolition
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Alone
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You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.
Ben Carson
Because
Become
Brain
Fail
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One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On the table, the anatomy is so different from normal, that you're constantly trying to figure out, 'Can I cut this? Does this wire lead to what?' It's like trying to defuse a bomb.
Ben Carson
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Bomb
Constantly
Cut
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But I want to just caution, it is not incumbent on the United States to prove that Saddam Hussein is trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. He's already demonstrated that he's trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction.
Condoleezza Rice
Acquire
Caution
Destruction
He
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Now, al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that is trying to bring democracy to its people.
Condoleezza Rice
Afghan
Afghanistan
Al
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I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.
Walter Dean Myers
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Both
Children
Get
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Thomas A. Edison
Accomplish
Hell
Here
No Rules
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We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.
Carl Sagan
Bad
Planet
Save
Trouble
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When you are pursuing your dreams and trying to leave a legacy, you will find help
Ibukun Awosika
Dreams
Pursuing
Legacy
You
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Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that's what a number of us are trying to do.
Richard Branson
Focusing
Get
Lot
Most
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My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.
Richard Branson
Above
Apparently
Challenges
Huge
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Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
Colin Powell
Bother
First
Help
People
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I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
Lee Iacocca
Accomplish
Being
Being Honest
Best
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A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
Jeff Bezos
Brand
Company
Earn
Hard
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The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.
D'Angelo
Art
Balance
Business
Crazy
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You have to know the forces that are against you and that are trying to break you down. We talk about the problems facing the black community: the decimation of the black family; the mass incarceration of the black man; we're talking about the brutality against black people from the police. The educational system.
D'Angelo
Brutality
Community
Down
Educational
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The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.
Jeff Bezos
Approaching
Bank
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Evil
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My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in a while I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture.
Leonard Nimoy
Am
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Dream
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Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
Princess Diana
Nothing
Brings
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Happiness
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My first year making music was very experimental. I was trying to find my sound. My second year, I was more in my element. I knew what type of production I wanted to go over and the topics I wanted to address.
Lil Peep
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Element
Experimental
Find
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I always like to do the things that I think are right. I am not trying to be a model, I am trying to be myself and do the right things. If what I am doing is a model, or is an example, is the right example, I am very happy, but I don't pretend that.
Rafael Nadal
Always
Am
Doing
Example
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The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.
Rafael Nadal
Before
Being
Better
Player
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The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.
Mark Zuckerberg
Communicate
Connect
Efficiently
Facebook
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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
T. D. Jakes
Between
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Lewis Grizzard
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Mistakes
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Often
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You've got to trust people. And because I am a control freak, sometimes that's difficult for me, because I want to micro-manage absolutely everything. I can't hand over. But I'm trying to do that more.
Victoria Beckham
Absolutely
Absolutely Everything
Am
Because
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There are skills you pick up on in a clinical environment in terms of how to ask questions, what to look for, how to listen that serve one well when trying to write.
Uzodinma Iweala
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Clinical
Environment
How
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I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.
Uzo Aduba
Brain
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Character
Close
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