#tryin

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive. ↗

— Tyler Perry

#boy #face #i #just #name

We did it with passion; we didn't do it like everyone else. Teams nowadays are still trying to duplicate that, but no one has yet. We shuffled down and we did it. We did it in an unique fashion. ↗

— William Perry

#down #duplicate #else #everyone #fashion

Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else. ↗

— William Petersen

#becoming #dark #dark side #desperately #else

Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play. ↗

— Oscar Peterson

#any #cerebral #get #jazz #just

Well, the oil, the oil spot, if you will, is a, is a term in counterinsurgency literature that connotes a peaceful area, secure area. So what you're trying to do is to always extend that, to push that out. ↗

— David Petraeus

#area #counterinsurgency #extend #literature #oil

I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it. ↗

— Sam Phillips

#black and white #establish #had #i #identity

I feel an obligation to set the record straight. Actors that say they're affected by something, that it changes their life, that they take it home with them, they're just trying to get nominated for an Oscar! ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#changes #feel #get #home #i

I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#anybody #difference #i #i always #large

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one. ↗

— Daniel Pinkwater

#because #day #easy #find #hunt

The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We're trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat. ↗

— John Pistole

#any #best #bottom #bottom line #constructing