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I tried singing. I tried playing a musical instrument. I really wanted to be a musician, but I never could quite pull that off. I liked entertaining, but I was always drawn to some kind of technical work - some kind of honest labor.
Bill Cobbs
Work
Singing
Musical
Musical Instrument
Drawn
Musician
Kind
Entertaining
Tried
Some
Could
Never
Liked
Instrument
Always
Off
Labor
Quite
Wanted
Really
Technical
Playing
Honest
Pull
I've tried to reinvent myself from time to time, and I enjoy doing movies.
Bill Goldberg
Time
Myself
Enjoy
Tried
Doing
From Time To Time
Movies
Reinvent
I think that's the thing I learned at 'Saturday Night Live' - any time I would try and strategize, I would always, always fall on my face. Things worked out when I tried to make it about what I was feeling at that moment and what I was into in that moment of my life.
Bill Hader
Life
Time
Try
Face
My Life
Feeling
Fall
Live
Think
Out
Would
Tried
About
Make
Learned
Always
Any
Worked
Moment
Saturday
Thing
Saturday Night
Things
Saturday Night Live
Night
I actually went out and tried to hire the very best Cabinet officers that I could, understanding they can make help make the hard calls for the budget position that we're in.
Bill Haslam
Best
Understanding
Out
Tried
Could
Cabinet
Budget
Make
Calls
Hire
Very
Officers
Hard
Help
Actually
Position
I saw a drummer play once when I was a kid and I thought, that's really cool. You know, you're moving. You're using your arms and fingers. So I tried it and I loved it.
Bill Kreutzmann
You
Thought
Once
Saw
Kid
Tried
Fingers
Know
Drummer
Arms
Loved
Moving
Really
Your
Cool
Using
Play
I used to be a health-care investor a long time ago in the public markets. One thing I learned that we tried to apply here is that investing in small molecules, trying to invest in the next treatment, there's an element of gambling to that.
Bill Maris
Time
Long
Long Time
Markets
One Thing
Tried
Small
Invest
Investing
Long Time Ago
Investor
Learned
Trying
Public
Next
Gambling
Used
Molecules
Element
Thing
Apply
Here
Treatment
All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.
Bill Murray
Mom
You
Business
Dance
Insist
Sister
Nun
Kids
Tried
Counting
Does
Doing
Up
Five
Ended
Us
Show
Show Business
Who
Four
I look at some of my early stuff - back when I was 12 or 13 years old - and I was already doing cross-hatching back then. I don't know where I picked that up. I think I was in a hurry, and I wanted to shade something really fast, and I tried cross-hatching a shadow.
Bill Plympton
Old
Think
Back
Tried
Hurry
Some
Shade
Shadow
Something
Picked
Stuff
Know
Look
Doing
Years
Up
Where
Wanted
Then
Really
Fast
Early
I don't think I missed a single picture Billie Dove ever made. I was crazy for her. I tried to do my hair like her, and eventually, I borrowed her name.
Billie Holiday
Crazy
Made
Hair
Picture
Single
Think
Tried
Borrowed
Missed
Name
Like
Dove
Eventually
Ever
Her
Cummings' career as a writer - and a painter - was as wobbly as his love life. He tried his hand at playwriting, satirical essays, and even a dance scenario for Lincoln Kirsten.
Billy Collins
Life
Love
Love Life
Dance
Playwriting
Tried
Scenario
Writer
He
Lincoln
Wobbly
His
Hand
Essays
Painter
Even
Satirical
Career
I always admired my father because he was a man that never put on any airs, you know. And I always tried to be that kind of person.
Billy Dee Williams
You
Man
Father
Kind
Tried
Admired
Never
He
Put
Know
Because
Always
Person
Any
For years I tried to put myself in a box, and it frustrated me, so I had to let go and let the universe take its course.
Billy Porter
Myself
Me
Universe
Tried
Take
Had
Put
Box
Course
Go
Years
Frustrated
Let Go
I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.
Billy Sheehan
Music
Bass
Types
Tried
Only
Look
Instrument
Instruments
Always
Opposed
Listened
Different
Many
Different Types
I've tried to pitch 'Borgen - the Musical,' but they just won't listen to me!
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
Me
Musical
Tried
Pitch
Listen
Just
President Obama has tried to spin the paltry new job creation numbers as 'a step in the right direction.' But, clearly, the small growth in jobs isn't even keeping up with population growth, much less returning the workforce to a healthy level.
Bob Beauprez
Job
Healthy
Creation
President
President Obama
Job Creation
Jobs
Obama
Tried
Spin
Direction
Small
Step
Clearly
New
Returning
New Job
Up
Much
Workforce
Less
Even
Population
Population Growth
Keeping
Growth
Right
Level
Paltry
Right Direction
Numbers
When I started Go Daddy, I tried many things - like building networks and selling education - and none of it panned out. I lost millions of dollars the first couple of years. I made a lot of wrong turns, but that's the process of being successful in business.
Bob Parsons
Education
Business
Made
First
Building
Lost
Out
Tried
Networks
Wrong
Like
Couple
None
Go
Dollars
Years
Lot
Selling
Being
Process
Successful
Turns
Many
Daddy
Things
Started
Millions
Millions Of Dollars
As a child, I saw how the industry's sweet-talkers operate. For years, they tried to make my father feel like he was the best actor in the whole world. My father never took them seriously. I, too, imbibed that trait from him.
Bobby Deol
Best
World
Seriously
Father
Too
Took
Saw
Tried
Never
He
Feel
Like
Operate
Make
Him
Industry
How
Years
Child
Trait
Them
Whole
Actor
Dreams are pretty unexplainable. Have you ever tried to explain a dream to someone, and they're like 'Yeah, that sounds not as exciting as you think it is?'
Borns
Dreams
You
Think
Dream
Tried
Pretty
Someone
Exciting
Like
Yeah
Sounds
Explain
Ever
I sort of tried to get a basketball scholarship out of high school, but that didn't happen. Then I started working for UPS, and that paid for tuition for school. I moved to a bigger town, Louisville. I did it for a year. I had to work the graveyard shift. And then you get off at eight for classes, so that sucked. Then I dropped out.
Boyd Holbrook
Work
You
School
Year
Out
High
Tried
Classes
High School
Had
Scholarship
Dropped
Town
Sort
Shift
Off
Louisville
Get
Did
Tuition
Moved
Ups
Eight
Happen
Bigger
Then
Working
Paid
Sucked
Graveyard
Started
Basketball
That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes.
Brad Bird
Family
Tried
Archetypes
Part
Stuff
Powers
Personal
Story
Anyway
Personal Stuff
Interested
Base
In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.
Brad Paisley
Guitarist
Past
Typical
Tried
More
Concerned
Anybody
In The Past
Session
If you've never tried drugs, don't. And if you have, pray.
Brad Renfro
You
Tried
Never
Pray
I tried writing a novel, but plays were the thing that kept feeding me, asking me to come back, sit down and be with them.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Me
Writing
Sit
Down
Back
Tried
Feeding
Come
Were
Them
Asking
Novel
Thing
Kept
Plays
Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good.
Brendan Fraser
Good
Character
Culture
Result
Few
Own
Society
Pleased
Way
Tried
Never
He
Make
Were
His
Very
Movies
Really
Popular
Popular Culture
Treated
I'm enriched by all my experiences, good and bad, but I've always tried to remain committed in my life as a coach and always positive.
Brendan Rodgers
Positive
Life
Good
My Life
Enriched
Bad
Tried
Remain
Always
Committed
Experiences
Coach
Good And Bad
I always think if you speak to someone in their second language, you speak to their head. If you speak in their first, you speak to their heart. I've always tried to let players see that.
Brendan Rodgers
You
Heart
Speak
Language
First
Think
Tried
See
Someone
Head
Always
Second
Players
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