#trying

It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for my career, but I'm trying to stay on the path I was on before. ↗

— Adrien Brody

#academy award #award #been #before #career

I had to actually purchase a book to learn the API and write the client. It was pretty frustrating trying to learn the API and develop a product quickly. ↗

— Shawn Fanning

#book #client #develop #frustrating #had

Also by my earliest days, I was fascinated by a utopian vision of what the world could be like. I've thought that science could be the basis for a better world, and that's what I've been trying to do all these years. ↗

— George E. Brown, Jr.

#basis #been #better #better world #could

I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users and the number of people that were interested in using the software. ↗

— Shawn Fanning

#cult thing #difficult #difficult thing #had #i

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it. ↗

— James Brown

#church #does #find #go #i

Unless you're trying to make a movie on the sly, there's no way to get around this. If you want to use public spaces, film on the streets, have the cooperation of the police, you have to have a permit. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#cooperation #film #get #make #movie

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#got #improve #life #lot #million

I'm glad I have an outlet. I don't think I would put my aggression elsewhere, but working on the projects I have worked on, you tend to benefit personally from trying to wrap your head around the way other people look at the world. ↗

— Ryan Gosling

#around #benefit #elsewhere #glad #head

I think I've kind of been mistaken for somebody who's trying to be a spokesperson for animal rights, and the fact is I'm not qualified to be a spokesperson. I am passionate about it, but I'm not trying to make other people do what I do. ↗

— Neko Case

#am #animal #animal rights #been #fact

I enjoyed high school and college, and I think I learned a lot, but that was not really my focus. My focus was on trying to figure out what businesses to start. ↗

— Steve Case

#college #enjoyed #figure #focus #high