The media has been trying to protect Obama. The media has been trying to shield Obama. Several in the Republican establishment in the so-called conservative media have even been trying to shield Obama.
I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy.
Unlike despotisms, modern democracies are not supposed promiscuously to accumulate property and then charge their taxpayers to maintain it. But that is what they do. Governments are always trying to extend their responsibilities and their estates, and it is very hard for parliaments to reign them in.
I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.
I'm just trying to play against ethnicity. I got to play a guy from Louisiana in 'The Pacific' named Merriell Shelton, and now I'm playing Elliot Alderman.
I'm ever-changing and always evolving, always trying new things.
I gave everything I could in trying to make Everton the best I could.
Honestly, I'm just trying to do the best I can with every opportunity I'm given, and when I'm given the opportunities make the most of them.
While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link and put it in the story, you suddenly need all these other missing links to connect to the new discovery. The gaps and questions actually increase - it's extraordinary.
Missionaries are very human folks, just doing what they are asked. Simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt Somebody.
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
One of the very, very exciting things I have found here in L.A. is that no one talks to you about being Scottish. Whereas, if you are in London and you are trying to put films together and be a film-maker, there is a kind of unspoken sense that, if you are Scottish, you have something to overcome or else you cannot really do that project.
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them.
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
I'm always going to be experimenting musically, trying new things.
Well, I'm still experimenting, trying to figure out my style. I'm trying lots of things from many designers including Christian Siriano.
How come trying to explode myths about Texas always winds up reinforcing them?
