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If you don't fail, you're not even trying. -- Denzel Washington
I'm having fun and I'm not even trying to do much. Everything is coming together. -- Johan Santana
We have intelligent species on our planet that we are not even trying to communicate with. -- Paul Watson
Fang! Angel?" i yelled, not even trying for stealth. i was storming the castle, not stealing the jewels. -- James Patterson
Historians are not scientists. They cannot (and should not even trying to) establish universal laws of social or political "physics" with reliable predictive powers. Why? Because there is no possibility of repeating the single, multi-millennium experiment that constant to the past. The sample size of human history is one. -- Niall Ferguson
I'm on time even when I try not to be. -- Diane Kruger
Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try. -- Fran Lebowitz
I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group. -- Dan Rather
If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try. -- Meryl Streep
Military commanders do not want to be tried for war crimes, even if those crimes are committed online. -- Evgeny Morozov
If you're trying to make a recipe that you're not even going to bother tasting, you're doing something wrong. -- Bryan Fuller
I cannot look at a question and not try to find the answer, even if I don't know it. -- Christian de Duve
I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's. -- Kate Hudson
It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying. -- Christy Turlington
I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting. -- Taylor Momsen
You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try. -- Robert Crumb
I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life. -- Vivienne Westwood
You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it. -- Jimmy Dean
Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same. -- Sally Ride
I'm always like 'I'm too skinny, I can't gain weight, even when I try.' I'd like to try to not let that get to me. -- Shailene Woodley
I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design. -- Richard Powers
We are not imperialists. We don't even try to take over Canada. It would be easy, although it might take a rear guard action to guard Anne Murray. -- Evan Sayet
We're not trying to make us live forever; we're not trying to even make us live significantly longer. What we're trying to do is extend the period of healthy life. -- S. Jay Olshansky
A lot of young-adult authors, great ones, have tried their hands at literary fiction, and not a lot of them have succeeded. Not even Roald Dahl could switch-hit, and not for lack of trying. -- Lev Grossman
The most important thing, in anything you do, is always trying your hardest, because even if you try your hardest and it's not as good as you'd hoped, you still have that sense of not letting yourself down. -- Tom Holland
I'm not trying to put you down, but even if I did, you'd have nowhere to go. -- Aleksandra Ninkovic
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I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn't even know it existed. -- Adam Oates
Violence has not really been an issue. Even in my wildest hopes, I wasn't trying to get violence in. -- Mitchell Hurwitz
Why is it that even when you're trying your hardest not to get attached, something still sneaks up on you? -- Claire Cook
Trying to prove you're not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you're not mentally ill,' said Tony." -- Jon Ronson
Rose, nothing in this world could make me hate you." "Not even trying to bring my ex-boyfriend back from the dead? -- Richelle Mead
Trying to prove you're not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you're not mentally ill,' said Tony. -- Jon Ronson
A scientist doesn't know all the answers. Nobody does, not even teachers. But a scientist keeps on trying to find the answers. -- Oliver Butterworth
I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I'm not even born yet. I'm still trying. I'm still pushing. I don't ever want to get to a place where I feel satisfied. -- Johnny Depp
You could spend your life trying to uncover all the treasures in New Orleans and not even scratch the surface. It's such an amazing place. -- Blake Lively
Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative." "Which is?" "Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know? -- Sarah Dessen
He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking. -- Leo Tolstoy
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...It's like trying to fit an octopus into a pair of tuxedo pants. And not a plain octopus at that, but an octopus that doesn't even exist. -- Arkady Strugatsky
Stop trying, stop struggling; begin to be calm, to trust in the higher laws of life, even though you do not see them; they are still there. -- Ernest Holmes
The problem in modern America is not that an individual can't make a difference, but that nearly all of us are too distracted to even consider trying. -- Oliver DeMille
I'm not even fifty yet, but I still feel like Instagram and Spotify - I'm trying to stay with it! It's not easy. The world is going so fast. -- Fisher Stevens

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