#tryin

Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#blind #blind eye #companies #congress #ends

When you lock a movie's release date and then move it two months, it's just not good. It's good for everything but the cast, crew, and people who are creatively trying to make a film. ↗

— Rob Zombie

#creatively #crew #date #everything #film

I'm fighting a losing battle here: I'm trying to lose some weight. I love chocolate; that's one of my biggest downfalls. I haven't gotten a whole lot of chocolate, thank goodness, because I'd probably be about 300 pounds. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#battle #because #biggest #chocolate #fighting

I like that sense of we're all on the same page and trying to get the job done. ↗

— Peabo Bryson

#get #i #job #like #page

Unlike despotisms, modern democracies are not supposed promiscuously to accumulate property and then charge their taxpayers to maintain it. But that is what they do. Governments are always trying to extend their responsibilities and their estates, and it is very hard for parliaments to reign them in. ↗

— James Buchan

#always #charge #democracies #estates #extend

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#behavior #being #biased #exclusively #how

I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising. ↗

— Leo Burnett

#boss #client #creation #debilitating #good

I started trying to do my own music at home, and I was like, 'You know what, I can play the guitar, sort of. And I can do these things, sort of. And I can make these crazy noises on my computer, sort of. But I need a ridiculously good drummer. I need someone to help me with string arrangements.' ↗

— Steve Burns

#computer #crazy #drummer #good #guitar

I'm not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it's a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don't believe that's the way one oughta campaign, I've never done that. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#believe #campaign #candidate #done #down

All of us gave it all we've got, overcame a whole lot just being on the show and learned a lot about ourselves. We're just normal people trying to do what we love and follow our dreams. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#being #dreams #follow #gave #got