Famous Quotes: Try

Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive.
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When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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I'm kind of obsessed with food. I like to eat.
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With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.
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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
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We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.
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I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.
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Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.
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The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
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When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
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When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.
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Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
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The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
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My mom is a constant in my life in so many ways.
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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?
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I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.
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When I run in the morning, my body spends the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what's happening to it.
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