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My agenda is trying to help people live a better life. -- Jillian Michaels
I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back. -- Richard Lewis
It is very different trying to help a community organization than trying to sell yourself or sell a product. -- John W. Rogers, Jr.
You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble. -- Charles Olson
There's always someone who is trying to help. -- Fred Rogers
Self-improvement comes mainly from trying to help others. -- John Templeton
I was trying to help you, so I was beating wrong. -- Eugene Ormandy
Don't call me an icon. I'm just a mother trying to help. -- Princess Diana
Too many people are going for self and not trying to help their communities. -- Kevin Powell
There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves. -- Andrew Carnegie
Some intentionally injure others through mocking, sarcasm with no intent to help. Others are trying to help. -- Sterling W Sill
WKRP [showed] something happening between people-there was something underneath about people trying to help each other out. -- Howard Hesseman
I'm not claiming I'm a saint, but I have a genuine, genuine belief in trying to help others. -- John Key
I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start. -- John Lee Hooker
You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble -- Charles Olson
The horse saved my life, so that's kind of why I'll spend the rest of mine trying to help them. -- Buck Brannaman
This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness. -- Tony Snow
I didn't get into teaching and coaching for the number of wins or the money. It was a passion for trying to help young people -- Bo Ryan
I actually had a dream that one of my friends became president, and I was trying to help out with the campaign. It was pretty good. -- Chris Massoglia
I'm on the third line. I'm a crasher. I know my role. I'm just trying to help. I'm not stupid enough to think I'm great out there. -- Darcy Tucker
There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself. -- Andrew Carnegie
Right now I'm trying to help my sister with her school situation, 'cause she's real smart. Besides me, my other brother's a lawyer... my parents stressed education a lot. -- Wyclef Jean
For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people. -- Iris Dement
Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign. -- Carly Fiorina
The Internet browser is the most susceptible to viruses. The browser is naive about downloading and executing software. Google is trying to help by releasing the Chrome browser as open source. -- Vint Cerf
I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful. -- Allan Sloan
We're talking about people who've already got 3-4, if not 5-6 years' experience or more, and it's about trying to help professionals develop, using us as a resource for that development. -- Siobhan Davies
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble? -- Benjamin Spock
I have quite a strong sense of wanting to sort of, wanting to help others. I'm not claiming I'm a saint, but I have a genuine, genuine belief in trying to help others. -- John Key
I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they choose, they'll need to really pay attention to it. -- Gerry Cooney
Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens. -- Charles Kuralt
By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we? -- Rick Danko
By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we?" -- Rick Danko
I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog. -- Jeff Koons
They are so busy, Julia, trying to help the world that they've forgotten how to help themselves. They've forgotten how to be happy, and it is a happy man or woman who helps the world most. -- Christopher Pike
The director is the ultimate creative arbiter of what's going to happen. And as a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who are trying to help you find what you need and what you want. -- Roman Coppola
I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself. -- Jim Harrison
The Gamifaction Movement is trying to help companies engage their audience and community by using game mechanics and wrapping them around shopping or achievements, so you get achievements for coming to a store or purchasing things, like rewarding activities. -- Jane McGonigal
In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and libraries. At that time, books by men mystery writers were reviewed seven times as often as books by women. -- Sara Paretsky
It's a morality film, and it poses the question 'What would you do?' I took it very seriously, just as the director did in terms of atmosphere and lighting, and I was just trying to help that vision along. -- Kevin Williamson
It's kind of hard to spend long hours trying to help people and then find out that the favorite game of the columnist is to sit back and second guess you and try to find something that you did wrong. -- Bill Scott
But very often in politics we have the experience called up from my father when someone was trying to help him in the campaign: I can take care of my enemies, may the Good Lord save me from my friends. -- Robert Foster Bennett
When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't want to forget... So I realize, that if it's hard for me, how much harder it must be for you." -- Katherine Paterson
Now that our troops are mired in a dangerous effort to defeat the insurgency and are also trying to help rebuild the country, Americans of all political persuasions simply want the United States to succeed and our troops to be as safe as possible. -- Harry Reid
Anybody who gives away money is mostly looking at things where they think they can make a difference. I'm trying to help people who helped me, educational institutions that helped me with scholarships, or organizations that were very useful to me in growing up. -- David Rubenstein
My wife died of someone trying to help her. He helped her find her way off a bridge and into a chained and locked metal trunk. Then he had the audacity to not accept a coupon when I went to pay him for his services rendered. -- Jarod Kintz
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
I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them. -- Liam Neeson
In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because they feel something else will happen; that the experience will take them beyond themselves and show them something they haven't seen before. -- Mohsin Hamid
The man who labors to please his neighbor for his good to edification has the mind that was in Christ. It is a sinner trying to help a sinner. Even a feeble, but kind and tender man, will effect more than a genius, who is rough and artificial. -- Richard Cecil
Ever since I've been blessed with success, I've struggled a little with anonymity and even family. I've had people calling asking for money, and I have to ask them first, 'Are you working? Have you been trying to help yourself?' Then I feel like I can help. -- Tyler Perry
The Republicans ought to be nowhere near trying to help Obama save his bacon. But they don't think that's what they're doing, I'm convinced. You talk about trauma and the need for therapy, I really think that the Republicans have been genuinely psychologically traumatized by decades of media criticism. -- Rush Limbaugh
And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene. -- John Breaux
I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship. -- Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
I try to help people with management stuff a lot. -- Ben Horowitz
I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started. -- Charley Pride
Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself. -- Colin Powell
I definitely like sorting stuff out, and I have the enthusiasm to try and help. -- Ben Elliot
I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can. -- Rajeev Shukla
If you have a problem, try to get help, you can get through it if you get help. -- Maureen McCormick
Sometimes you try to help people, and it backfires on you, and then they try to take advantage of you. -- Bill Cosby
It's very important for me to try to relax when I'm travelling, and playing my flute helps me to unwind. -- Andrea Bocelli
Whenever I see people in difficulty, I just try to help them. In fact, I believe I have helped over 700,000 people in my life. -- Chen Guangbiao
Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other. -- Katarina Witt
Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying. -- Mary Browne
I always try to say, 'If you want to help the environment, try to do just two things. One, use less of your car. Second, separate your garbage.' -- Jaime Lerner
Big government helps the people who have made it. It doesn't help the people who are trying to make it; it crushes the people who are trying to make it. -- Marco Rubio
I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt. -- Boris Spassky
I decided to try celibacy because I heard it would help the meditation, and I tried meditation because I heard it would help with the music. So, it all really comes back to the music. -- Rivers Cuomo
Don't you quit! You keep walking. You keep trying. There is help & happiness ahead. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
Trying to force things only disturbs your goals. Forcing will not help. Everything happens in its right time. -- Judith Orloff
Trying to help an oppressed person is like trying to put your arm around somebody with a sunburn. -- Florynce Kennedy
The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently. -- Mark Zuckerberg
There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. -- Frank A. Clark
There is nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitor. -- Frank Howard Clark
Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won't necessarily help. -- Jeremy Lin
I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-stripes. -- Gillian Jacobs
When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great magnitude, you have to have help. -- Zach Johnson
I'm not thinking about my numbers. I'm just trying to do the best I can to help the team win. -- Carlos Gonzalez
If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different. -- Josh Homme
If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different. -- Josh Homme
That's one of my jobs, just trying to do what I can to help this team out as much as possible. -- Cobi Jones
I can't help but note that God is being useful to a lot of people trying to do harm to one another. -- Barbara Brown Taylor
I'm not trying to be philosophical, but I really think it's my job to help children. And I don't care if people laugh. -- Michael Jackson
We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths. -- Peter Drucker
Training a horse is above all feeling and trying, according to what you feel, to help the horse and not to force him. -- Nuno Oliveira
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
I think I feel on the whole that something's there trying to get out ... It's sort of trying to get out and wants help. -- Ivy Compton-Burnett
Once I stopped trying to always do everything my way, and once I asked for God's help, things have truly gone a different direction. -- Sylvester Stallone
What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone. -- Elon Musk
I'm sure men have their own ways of trying to demean one another, but women can be very gossipy and judgmental, and that doesn't help. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy. -- Abdul Qadeer Khan
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. -- Dennis Moore
I'm trying to make you think I'm a decent person. Telling you I saw you naked while I was another species does not help my case -- Maggie Stiefvater
Words are a human way of trying to describe things. But they're much more of interference than they are a help in the world of enlightenment. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Oh, I'm so glad we know what it's called, that's a great help," snarled Ron, leaning back, trying to stop the plant from curling around his neck. -- J. K. Rowling
I'm trying to get across the message that don't be afraid of animals, they're just put on this earth to help the environment and everything like that. -- Bindi Irwin
I thank God every day. That's all I can do. That, and try to help all those other guys who are trying to do what I did. -- Tyson Beckford
In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community. -- Jimmy Smits
Like most parents in the US, they are trying, with a little help from UNICEF, to do the best they can to help their children reach their full potential... -- Susan Sarandon
Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help. -- Donald Rumsfeld

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