#trying

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

I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff. ↗

— David Byrne

#devote #friends #fun #hanging #home

All forms of contact are good: letters, parcels, e-mails - I've been trying to get a Webcam for my computer, but I'm such a Luddite. ↗

— Rose Byrne

#computer #contact #e-mails #forms #get

At a certain point, I got into the older, cooler crowd, and they listened to hip-hop. I was desperately trying to fit in. ↗

— Rose Byrne

#certain point #cooler #crowd #desperately #fit

I've been trying to get cast as a lesbian for years. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#cast #get #i #lesbian #trying

I am an American. Black. Conservative. I don't use African-American, because I'm American, I'm black and I'm conservative. I don't like people trying to label me. African- American is socially acceptable for some people, but I am not some people. ↗

— Herman Cain

#african-american #am #american #because #black

Chris Christie has been saying for a long time he's not interested in running. The media is trying to create a story by sucking Chris Christie into race, just like they made a story by sucking Rick Perry into the race. ↗

— Herman Cain

#chris #christie #create #interested #into

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#children #cut #his #knot #life

There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#apply #been #beyond #caught #circumstances

Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#based #experience #ideas #live #mind