Quotes by Trying If the bottom dropped out of the market and the artist was not going to sell anything, he or she will keep working, and the dealer will keep trying to find some way to convince somebody to buy this stuff. Chuck Close photographyartisttrying At the same time that I'm finding the color world I want, I'm also trying to make the imagery, you know, by the nature of the strokes themselves. Chuck Close colortryingworld Try to find like-minded people. Don't choose your friends based on the outside, choose your friends based on your similar views or something that you can learn from. Chuck D viewstryingpeople So, rather than trying to humbly mix with the rest of the world, we are forcing ourselves upon it. We seem to create conflicts with everyone. Chuck D conflicttryingworld Try to do your best to look people in the eye and talk to them without a gadget being in between you all the time. Chuck D eyetryingpeople Try to master technology instead of it mastering you. Chuck D technologymasterstrying Every time something tries to create respect with a machine it crumbles! Chuck D machinestrying The truth has no form, you know. It's not like walking around trying to actually ask for favors and to be acknowledged, it is what it is. Chuck D favorsformtrying I would like to say is that to be truly American and represent American ideals you need to consider yourself a citizen of the world. American policy has gone contrary to that ideal. The Bush Administration is bent on making the world submit to "Americanism" instead of becoming a member of the world community. This orchestration comes from the very top of the Administration and has pushed America into a corner. So, rather than trying to humbly mix with the rest of the world, we are forcing ourselves upon it. We seem to create conflicts with everyone. Chuck D communitytryingamerica Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound. Chuck D soundtryingpeople I get paid by the year, and I try to earn my money. Chuck Grassley paidtryingyears Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke. Chuck Jones sunshinelighttrying It's peculiar what you remember when you're not trying. Chuck Klosterman peculiarremembertrying People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation. Chuck Klosterman dreamtryingpeople No woman will ever satisfy me. I know that now, and I would never try to deny it. But this is actually okay, because I will never satisfy a woman, either. Should I be writing such thoughts? Perhaps not. Perhaps it’s a bad idea. I can definitely foresee a scenario where that first paragraph could come back to haunt me, especially if I somehow became marginally famous. Chuck Klosterman writingtryingideas Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every comparison becomes impractical. This is why the impractical has become totally acceptable; impracticality almost seems cool. Chuck Klosterman fake-peoplerealtrying To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesn't mean you need to attack the person, but you do need to look at it like you're trying to get information that has not been written about before. Chuck Klosterman artisttryingmean People who are wrong during particularly important moments inevitably spend the rest of their lives trying to explain how their wrongness was paradoxically correct, or-at the very least-why their wrongness "felt right at the time," which is very, very different from being authentically correct. Chuck Klosterman importanttryingpeople I can tell when I've met a bad journalist when they say, "I've met Madonna," or "I know Marilyn Manson." Because I haven't met anyone I've ever interviewed. I've sat down in the position of an interviewer, and they've sat down in the position of an artist trying to promote a product. We have no relationship. I'm able to ask them questions I'd never be allowed to ask them if we were casual friends. It's a completely constructed kind of situation. Chuck Klosterman ableartisttrying I'll always try to go the safest route, but once someone strikes you or puts their hands on you then it's on, at least for me. Chuck Liddell strikestryinghands«147148149150151152153154155156157»
