#tryin

With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral. ↗

— James Bovard

#attention #attention deficit #combination #death #deficit

There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things. ↗

— Julie Bowen

#expression #good #great #make #mess

But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#attention #care #i #i can #i care

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#cause #critic #demonstrate #demonstrating #every

I'm trying to change the culture in New York City; that's hard enough! ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#city #culture #enough #hard #i

And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings. ↗

— Sibel Edmonds

#been #campaigning #committee #get #hearings

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#defense #destroying #far #go #how

So, we need to delegitimize the nuclear weapon, and by de-legitimizing... meaning trying to develop a different system of security that does not depend on nuclear deterrence. ↗

— Mohamed ElBaradei

#deterrence #develop #different #does #meaning

I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right. ↗

— Suzy Bogguss

#ever #get #give #i #ideas

I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do. ↗

— Andrew Bogut

#best #come #distractions #game #hard