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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.
George Tooker
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the attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad
Stephen Leacock
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Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself
Mahatma Gandhi
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But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco
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Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt an...
Grenville Kleiser
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We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance and seriousness, it demands such intensity of effort, that to attempt it any old way and amongst other things is i...
George Gurdjieff
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The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to “put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honest...
Terry Pratchett
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While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
Samuel Johnson
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Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it`s in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
M.C. Escher
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For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
Robert Penn Warren
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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent Van Gogh
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The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
William Shakespeare
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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt
William Shakespeare
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Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
D.H. Lawrence
Subject: Pornography QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
D.H. Lawrence
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while
Albert Einstein
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Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it
Albert Einstein
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[on his role as Father Grandier in The Devils (1971)] You would think from the critics` hostility that Ken Russell had tried to pull off some obscene hoax. On the contrary, the film is, I think, an utterly serious attempt to understand the nature of relig...
Oliver Reed
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The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don`t know how to get it, and everything we do is some kind of attempt to capture it for ourselves.
Ryan Gosling
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All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.
Charlie Chaplin
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I don`t take any notice of her. She`s John`s wife so I have to respect her for that, but I don`t think she`s the brightest of buttons. She`s said some particularly daft things in her time. Her life is dedicated to putting me down but I attempt very strong...
Paul McCartney
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I do not attempt to orchestrate my career. I let God do that. I like horror movies. To me, they are a very legitimate place for an actor to work. It`s a great arena for me to experiment, to play a range of different funky characters. I like what I`m doing...
Clint Howard
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I look at film as closer to a painting or a piece of music; it`s an impression . . . an impression of character and total atmosphere . . . The attempt is to enlist an audience emotionally, not intellectually.
Robert Altman
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[on being picked to host the 78th Annual Academy Awards]: As a performer, I`m truly honored to be hosting the show. Although, as an avid watcher of the Oscars, I can`t help but be a little disappointed with the choice. It appears to be another sad attempt...
Jon Stewart
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[to his wife after the assassination attempt]: Honey, I forgot to duck.
Ronald Reagan
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Everybody ought not to turn his back on the phenomenon of hatred in whatever form it takes. We have to find out what the anatomy of hatred is before we can understand it. We have to make some attempt to put it into some understandable form. Any kind of gr...
Marlon Brando
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[on Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) "A noble attempt at saying something about the nuclear proliferation on the planet through Superman. Unfortunately the script was just dreadful. I mean there`s no two ways about it, that script was terrible. And...
Margot Kidder
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Once I got sort of quite good then it was `sit down, take a deep breath and attempt to copy the Beatles`, which is very difficult, although I have to say I`ve mastered it to a tee.
Noel Gallagher
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(July 2006): One mistake we always make is to ape the West. We attempt films that we think they will like. The true crossover films are `Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon` and `Life Is Beautiful` where the director goes entirely by his conviction, culture, co...
Hrithik Roshan
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You have to be at best only half-aware of what you`re trying... if you know what you`re looking for, there`s no attempt to do some real work.
Chris Morris
