Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.
Mary Joe Fernandez rarely has a bad loss. She never tries for stupid shots.
I’ve never been a big soloist; I just put in what needs to be there. I’m more of a rhythm player who plays lead – or tries to play lead.
Each generation tries to disassociate itself with the last generation. And then, about three decades later, people kind of start to maybe appreciate what you might have done a while back that you don’t even realize you did.
If one engineer at a startup tries Slack and says, ‘I hate it. I am not going to use this,’ that’s it for us. We won’t get evaluated.
To be a good manager, a manager tries to constantly fight to reduce waste.
If someone, a director, tries to tell me the way to do something, I’m not good at adapting. I need time to go away and think about things.
When I go to shows, I’m really looking forward to hearing the songs I know. I don’t like it when a band tries to expose me to new stuff.
I guess I feel the most powerful when someone tries to take my power or belittle me or insult me, and it doesn’t work.
The force I represent is Virginia’s New Mainstream. It looks forward, not backwards. It tries to unify people, not divide them.
I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.
I don’t think people experiment enough with clothing because society tries to tell them what they can and can’t wear. I love playing around with different aesthetics and/or mixing around aesthetics to create a totally new look.
I produce the records. I don’t hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will – for commercial purposes.
What the right-wing in the United States tries to do is undermine the press.
One of the billions of things I love about Beyonce: The harder she tries to come on crazy, the less crazy she sounds.
I have always been the kind of player who tries to help those around me.
Film scores are complicated puzzles that you need to figure out and solve very quickly, or else you’re basically fired. You’re hired to enhance the film and you only have a couple tries to prove that you are capable of that task. I can keep trying to enhance my album ad infinitum.
Yes, and many times it’s frustrating, because I’m simply part of the show, and I’m not in the creative end of it, who goes out with detectives and tries to find these things out.
When Barack Obama tries to continually weasel his ever-expanding government into the private sector or does something like try to sneak the biggest backdoor tax in history into the books, he ceases to be ‘Presidential.’
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
While Saudi Arabia tries to usher in the post-oil era, its citizens struggle to adjust to a more diversified capitalist society.
A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares.
If a show ever tries to be cool, then it’s going to be doing something wrong.
Yes… I miss that everyone in Ireland tries to knock some humour out of every situation. I don’t think I appreciated that. It’s unique to Ireland.
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
