If I see something that’s extremely challenging, I’m like, ‘That seems really hard. Let’s try it.’ It’s just my personality. – Condola Rashad
Jazz really does try to include everything. It’s always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances. – Madeleine Peyroux
I try to buy shares of unpopular companies when they look like road kill and sell them when they’ve been polished up a bit. – Michael Burry
If there’s a severe recession, the automatic stabilizers will come into effect, and we will still try to reduce the structural deficit, but we will not try to keep cutting the budget so that we keep worsening a severe recession. – Franklin Raines
I’m obviously attuned to pick up mathematics whenever I can see it. But in Mozart there is a lot of conscious use of mathematical symbolism and numbers in order to try and give messages. – Marcus du Sautoy
I didn’t try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses. – David Bailey
I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable. – Don Henley
I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched. – Gautam Gambhir
If you don’t feel right, you’re going to try to tweak every pitch, every little thing, things that probably don’t even need tweaking. – Drew Pomeranz
There’s no such thing as a perfect person, so it makes no sense to write a perfect person. I don’t know any author who’d try. And we write characters, not representations of groups. – David Levithan
All tweets are tasty. Any tweet anybody writes is tasty. So, I try to have each tweet not simply be informative, but have some outlook, some perspective that you might not otherwise had. – Neil deGrasse Tyson
I try to figure out – intellectually, philosophically, psychologically – what the experience of beauty is. – Denis Dutton
I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are. – Nora Ephron
It’s one thing to earnestly try but fail to bring the two sides together. Though Democrats will deny it, that was the case with George W. Bush. – David Limbaugh
Up until now, I had ideas that I wanted to try but didn’t have the opportunity to do them. – Namie Amuro
In the case of Pakistan, the CIA actually used a fake vaccination campaign to try to locate Osama bin Laden, so now vaccination is associated with espionage. – Eula Biss
There’s individual turntable setups devoted to piano, bass, drums and a set for soloing as well. We like to try and explore the gamut of what a turntable can do. – Eric San
My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers. – Mark Leyner