#tried

In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#ads #anyone #applications #book #children

Almost everything I tried out for I pretty much got. I landed Power Rangers, and the rest is history. ↗

— Thuy Trang

#everything #got #history #i #i tried

I tried to keep it secret, but the story got into the newspapers. It was more difficult for my family, who couldn't understand why the media wouldn't leave me in peace. ↗

— Grete Waitz

#family #got #i #i tried #into

I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate. ↗

— Jack White

#anything #challenge #compensate #create #easy

I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace. ↗

— Markus Wolf

#different #doing #expression #give #good

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds. ↗

— Gao Xingjian

#i #i always #male #many #men

When I did play, I tried to make the most of it. ↗

— Danny Bautista

#i #i tried #make #most #play

It means that the men who hold the means of life control our lives, and, because we workingmen have tried to get some measure of justice, some measure of betterment, they deny the right of the human being to associate with his fellow. ↗

— James Larkin

#because #being #betterment #control #deny

My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#composing #effect #even #had #hand

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#adult life #bound #flinching #i #i tried