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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

Tried Quotes

I haven’t really tried to write a movie. It’s tough to get into that mode.

– Hannibal Buress

If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.

– Harold Pinter

I’m a performer. I’ve tried everything there is.

– Gene Pitney

I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.

– Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

I have tried so hard to do right.

– Grover Cleveland

I tried never to be defined by my past.

– Issey Miyake

I never co-write. I’ve tried it before, and I just can’t do it.

– Imelda May

I have tried to kill sectarianism, whether in Catholics or Protestants.

– James Larkin

I tried to do things independently with each child.

– Andie MacDowell

I tried ice-skating and wasn’t very good at it.

– Anton Yelchin

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

– Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.

– Alan Alda

I tried never to take anything for granted.

– Cilla Black

I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.

– Ad Reinhardt

I’ve never tried too hard.

– Chiara Ferragni

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

– Charles Darwin

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

– Babe Ruth

If I wasn’t an actor, I probably would’ve tried to get a job with the Braves.

– Matt Lanter

With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.

– Nana Mouskouri

I followed my heart and figured that if I tried and failed, at least I’d know that I tried.

– Michelle Branch

There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.

– Caroline Corr

Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.

– Gore Vidal

In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent.

– Miguel de Icaza

I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn’t always be the best, but I tried to be.

– Frank Robinson

No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life.

– David Starr Jordan

I tried to have more than one emotion on the record.

– Neko Case

I’ve tried to let the work I do speak.

– David Morse

I always tried to play my hunches.

– Gene Tierney

I’ve truly tried to be apolitical.

– David Petraeus

I’ve tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed.

– David Alan Grier

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