#trying

I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work. ↗

— Alvin Ailey

#beings #color #human #human beings #i

Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture. ↗

— Steve Albini

#before #blindfolded #enlightening #know #more

For me, you've got to play football first. We're not trying to be accountants. The money takes care of itself. That's kind of how I think anyway. ↗

— Shaun Alexander

#anyway #care #first #football #got

There still is a war on women in terms of politicians in Washington and the state legislatures trying to eliminate any rights we have fought to win and that the Supreme Court has afforded us. ↗

— Gloria Allred

#any #court #eliminate #fought #legislatures

Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

#even #every #fat #fat man #fatter

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't. ↗

— Tori Amos

#creative #else #everybody #like #own

I always had a dream about trying to make a movie that had no dialogue in it, that was just music and pictures. I still haven't done it yet, but I tried to get close in the beginning. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#always #beginning #close #dialogue #done

They are a fairly aggressive conservation organization that was started to protect the great whales particularly, but in general all marine life around the world. So those are the people I'm trying to attach my name to. ↗

— Richard Dean Anderson

#around #attach #conservation #fairly #general

In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#every #family #feeling #find #i

For me, making films is about trying to work something out by myself in quite a lonely way. I find the whole thing very lonely really. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

#films #find #i #lonely #making