#attempt

I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

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My first attempt at a kiss was in fifth grade, but it didn't go so well. Later, I used Boyz II Men and Jodeci songs to come on to girls. I had more success. ↗

— John Legend

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It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

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It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible. ↗

— Arthur Machen

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Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

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By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching. ↗

— Albert Maltz

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If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

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No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

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What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they'll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don't need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place. ↗

— Dominic Monaghan

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