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I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself. -- Roald Dahl
The best climbers have the will to hold on. They won't give up and keep trying over and over. -- Chris Sharma
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I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can. -- R. Lee Ermey
Give a man a free hand and he'll try to put it all over you. -- Raoul Walsh
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I always try to do something different. I don't think I've made the same record over and over. -- Norah Jones
As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene. -- Jean-Marc Vallee
If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
I like to try the scene over and over, but given the confines of television, I don't have that option. -- John Slattery
Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself. -- Mike Mills
I'm a pretty hands-off director. I let people try things, and if it gets over-jokey, then I'll try and rein it in a little bit. -- Joe Swanberg
Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again. -- Rosa Parks
Presidents and speakers for over 100 years had tried to pass affordable care for all Americans. It was challenged over and over. The Supreme Court declared it constitutional. -- Nancy Pelosi
I approach music and acting the same way, through spontaneous improvisation. I never really try to rehearse anything, do it over and over, except when we're inside a take. -- Matt Schulze
We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records. -- Ken Thompson
I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing. -- Matt Damon
We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work. -- Charles Kettering
The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work. -- Charles Kettering
Children crave routine and find listening to the same stories over and over again soothing. If you've grown weary of the holiday books you've read your kid 7,883 times, try adding 'dude' to the end of every line of dialogue. -- Adam Mansbach
Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a book. You do it over and over, always trying to be a little bit better. Then you die. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over. -- Eric Clapton
We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk. -- Andrew Young
I'm over dudes trying to look like they're in boy bands. -- Kesha
My hustle is just too crazy. I'm trying to take over the world! -- Spencer Pratt
Efforts can succeed over time, and not trying ensures that the worst will happen. -- Noam Chomsky
Superstitions are man's way of trying to control things he has no control over... -- Sarah Addison Allen
Don't waste your time trying to win people over that can never be won over. -- Joel Osteen
All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that. -- Jon Lech Johansen
I have now spent over a year trying to figure where in the workplace I belong. -- Paulina Porizkova
Don't spend all your time trying to win over your critics. Just run your own race. -- Joel Osteen
Expect me to continue what I've been doing, which is trying to take over the world. -- Kevin Hart
No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world. -- Eoin Colfer
I'm not trying to achieve perfection. I don't like this forced control people have over work. -- Billy Childish
All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that. -- Jon Lech Johansen
I like to think that I'm trying to choose love over most things, but that's my choice. -- Seal
I'm trying to write for people my age. And my inspiration over the years has changed dramatically. -- John Mellencamp
We are a democratic, egalitarian people who spend our days desperately trying to climb over each other. -- David Brooks
As an actor, you're trying to capture the nuances of real life, but voice work is almost over-acting. -- Mike Colter
I've been trying to make my head rule my actions, when my heart has so obviously taken over. -- R.K. Lilley
I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle. -- Muhammad Ali
Cast out pride and vanity; have no thought of trying to rule over others or of outdoing them. -- Wallace D. Wattles
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. -- Larry Wall
You can't be trying to be funny. As an adult actor, sometimes I'll muddle it up by over-thinking things. -- David Walton
Someone's just told me the English are still trying to take over the United States - is that true? -- Steve Guttenberg
But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of cake. -- Jonathan Coulton
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I've been trying to start a garage band for over a decade now, but father won't move his car. -- Jarod Kintz
We are all trying to get over the person who broke our hearts. We are all far from perfect. -- Alex Rosa
Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body -- George Carlin
He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish. -- Jack London
Don't give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying. -- Brian Dyson
Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind. -- Marge Piercy
My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras. -- Carrie Fisher
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
Not since I was 10, trying to get Nick Vossler's attention in PE. 'Red Rover, Red Rover, send Nicholas right over!' -- Elizabeth Olsen
United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony. -- Richard Holbrooke
I realize over the years my music has started becoming more like country and it's not necessarily something I'm trying to do. -- Matt Wertz
I've never felt completely satisfied with what I've done. I tend to see things too critically. I'm trying to get over that. -- Kevin Kline
Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men. -- Patricia Heaton
If you're from South London you feel like you're always trying to win people over, so perhaps that underdog passion comes through. -- Jessie Ware
Are we gonna just make movies about trying to get laid over and over again or focus on something that's more relevant? -- Seth Rogen
It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I think there is quite a continuity over my 25 years of doing music, and I'm always trying to break away from it. -- Cliff Martinez
I'm just trying not to get run over. That's number one. Number two is you gotta catch the guy in front of ya. -- Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
People trying to separate people rather than bring us together... please. You don't just see it in America. It's all over the world. -- Maya Angelou
My personal feeling is that people need to be careful not to start over-analyzing and taking things apart and trying to be critical. -- Amy Ray
Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you. -- Edward Abbey
I think we're out on a limb right now, hanging over a cliff, and we're trying to find a way to get back. -- Charlie Manuel
Nothing ruins the mood during foreplay more than the recurring image of your sixty-five-year-old homeroom teacher trying to stretch a condom over a cucumber. -- Dennis Miller
If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color. -- Van Jones
I hate to say it, but she's trying to copy Miley [Cyrus] and Miley's trying to copy her. The era of Madonna is over. -- Andrea Tantaros
I've learnt that the world over, everyone's essentially the same. We are all trying to have a nice time and get along with things. -- Dominic Monaghan
As a filmmaker, I've had films that over-achieved and I've had films that under-achieved. You always go in trying to do your very best. -- Joseph McGinty Nichol
Are we acting like a couple? I'm just trying to get it straight. Cause I'm over here convinced that it's too early for mistakes. -- Drake
I've never gone for the smooth, suave Latin or French lover. That usually makes me think they're trying to pull one over on me. -- Tricia Helfer
I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse. -- William Wyler
Are you trying to get run over by a cab?""Don't be ridiculous. We could never get a cab that easily in this neighborhood. -- Cassandra Clare
Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before. -- J. R. Smith
Are you trying to get run over by a cab? Don't be ridiculous. We could never get a cab that easily in this neighborhood -- Cassandra Clare
You know a one eyed woman, she do the best she can. She search the world over trying to find her a one eyed man. -- Gary B.B. Coleman
I think my days of trying outrageous things are over. I'm not looking for trends, I just want to be the best version of myself. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
In the saddle again, Fire mulled over the commander's trust, prodding it around, like a candy in her mouth, trying to decide whether she believed it. -- Kristin Cashore
I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book. -- Neil Gaiman
When you're trying to make somebody the best version of themselves, you have to keep defining that over a period of time because sometimes it changes. -- John Calipari
Alas, why will a man spend months trying to hand over his liberty to a woman--and the rest of his life trying to get it back again? -- Helen Rowland
He pulls the hood over my head. I try to pull back. I'm not trying to run away. I just want to see her... One last time... -- Malorie Blackman
I have learned that trying again is important and decisivness is good. I have learned that silence hurts. I have learned about starting over and releasing pride. -- Sabrina Ward Harrison
An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper, of the average Saxon. -- Katherine Cecil Thurston
It's really hard to stay healthy over the long term of making a movie so that's why those things matter when you're trying to keep your health, literally. -- Elizabeth Banks
The poster art over the years, art with social critique in it, has always been trying to make that point - that we are larger than they are. -- Eric Drooker
Americans are sick of the idea of the government taking over everything and trying to run it. We don't know how to run a bank, a car company. -- Lamar Alexander
I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it -- Samuel Johnson
You know, if you're trying to mark your territory, you could've just peed on me before I came over here and saved us both a lot of time! -- Julie James
There are really so many people trying to get control over you on a daily basis and steal your soul in some way, take a part of you... -- Gerard Way
It sucks but it's exactly what I thought it would be. Like trying to start over. I got a hole in my heart, I'm some kind of emotional rollercoaster. -- Eminem
Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can't do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time. -- Ben Stein
Love is alright for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss!! -- Charles Bukowski
If you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way. -- C. S. Lewis
I was trying my best to just stop that ball from going over the fence, I'd sacrifice my body if I have to. I've done that my whole career. -- Torii Hunter
I feel the world is over-saturated with [brand] products, and it isn't about what you're wearing as much as it is about what message you are trying to convey. -- Ronnie Radke
It's in trying to direct the traffic between Artiface [sic] and Candor, without being run over, that I'm confronted with the questions about photography that matter most to me. -- Richard Avedon
The Costa Rican government is prioritizing laying fiber optic over paving roads. Costa Rica is trying to become one of the Internet societies. This is happening throughout the world. -- Reed Hastings

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