#try

A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they're supposed to be leaders in the world, they're followers. They follow what they think someone else is doing, instead of trying to blaze a trail. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#blaze #directors #doing #else #even

I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#definition #goes #i #i wish #me

One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#anything #bringing #country #democracy #genuine

There is so much that we need to do for our country. I don't think that we can afford to wait. ↗

— Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

#country #i #much #need #our

I saw many aspects of the country which I needed to see in order that I might know what we need to do. ↗

— Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

#country #i #know #many #might

We are not out to boast that there is so much percentage of growth per year. Our real concern is how it affects the lives of people, the future of our country. ↗

— Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

#boast #concern #country #future #growth

I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen. ↗

— Patti LaBelle

#am #did #hip #hip hop #hip-hop

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody. ↗

— Herbert Bayard Swope

#everybody #failure #formula #give #i

I try to keep myself as sane and as grounded as possible by surrounding myself with normal people, such as all the friends that I've had from when I was little. ↗

— Emily Rossum

#grounded #had #i #keep #little

I've been in the studio experimenting on making a CD of my own. I'm trying out different producers, styles, sounds. With music, as opposed to acting, you are not playing a character. You are showing people who you are. I really want to have my spirit in it. ↗

— Emily Rossum

#been #cd #character #different #experimenting