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• I do not attempt to orchestrate my career. I let God do that.

  Clint Howard

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• Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square… I think that gives us a sense of the breadth of the challenges that we face, and the kinds of things that our enemy is trying to do.

  Eric Himpton Holder Jr.

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• I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

  Edmund Hillary

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• You’re only as good or bad as your latest attempt to make some connection with the world.

  Steve Lopez

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• I will never attempt to even begin to make excuses for what I did in football.

  Peter Storey

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• Make voyages! Attempt them! There’s nothing else.

  Tennessee Williams

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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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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• My old teacher’s definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.

  Thom Gunn

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

  Colin Firth

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

  Robert K. Greenleaf

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• Each individual piece is a calculated attempt to entice women to add to their wardrobe.

  Bill Blass

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• In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent.

  Brian Ferneyhough

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• Whatever I do, I attempt to do it fully. I try, and don’t always succeed, to be thorough. There are musicians who do not know their worth, and if they knew it at one time, it has eluded them. I know my worth. You try not to dwell in the past.

  Bill Dixon

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• I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don’t have a little list of topics to write about.

  Tracy Chapman

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• I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.

  Iris Shun Ru Chang

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• Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable.

  Paul Berg

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

  Clifford Geertz

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