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• Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you’ve made is worth the misery of having to review it.

  Federico Fellini

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Desperate, Attempt, Convince

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Attempt, Ourselves

• The attempt is that we want to get a couple of minutes under our belt, depending on how good the tests are and take that into Hollywood. The fallback is we’re going to DVD anyways. We’ve got that covered.

  Todd McFarlane

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Attempt, Hollywood

• All sins are attempts to fill voids.

  Simone Weil

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Attempt

• The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn’t know well.

  Colin Firth

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Clothes, Attempt

• Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.

   

  Thomas Nagel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Attempt, Waste

• I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.

  Clifford Geertz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Attempt, Think

• Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.

  Sargent Shriver

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Attempt

• I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don’t even understand that which they know.

  Terrence Howard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Understand, Attempt

• The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

  Christopher Lasch

  Topics in Family

  Tags in People, Attempt, Voluntary

• It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.

  Christopher Lasch

  Topics in Family

  Tags in American, Attempt

• With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.

  Ted Lindsay

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Against, Attempt

• You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

  Charles Dance

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Attempt, Objective

• Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Saying, Attempt

• I like the fact that major studios have been attempting horror films recently.

  Richard King

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Studios, Attempt, Horror

• The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Attempt, World

• Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Against, Attempt

• From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance.

  Giraldus Cambrensis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Treat, Fortune, Importance, Matters, Attempt

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Giving, Chance, Attempt, Trouble, Men

• Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Chaos, Itself, Out, Attempt, Bring, Order