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My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.
Edward G. Robinson
Father
Black
Collector
Uncles
Friends
Trying
Turned
Zeal
Satisfy
Lungs
I found a comfort in trying to solve some poetic problems because there were human ones I just couldn't solve.
Edward Hirsch
Problems
Solve
Some
Poetic
Comfort
Because
Were
Trying
Human
Just
Found
You're trying to write about something that's sacred. You're trying to bring the seriousness of life and death to it, and you're trying to find a way to dramatize it, and you're trying to give language to it, which is inadequate. But it's important to try.
Edward Hirsch
Life
Death
You
Try
Language
Important
Way
Find
Life And Death
About
Give
Something
Sacred
Write
Trying
Which
Inadequate
Seriousness
Bring
You are always trying to make something that is more than the sum of its parts.
Edward Hirsch
You
Sum
Something
More
Make
Parts
Always
Than
Trying
If I'm trying to put size on for a role, then I don't do much running.
Edward Norton
Running
Put
Role
Trying
Size
Then
Much
Part of ego is displaying the ego. I've got ego, and I think I'm really good. But maybe I fall down in trying to sell it to people.
Edward Ruscha
Good
People
Ego
Fall
Down
Think
Part
Got
Sell
Trying
Maybe
Really
Displaying
I am not trying to bring down the NSA, I am working to improve the NSA. I am still working for the NSA right now. They are the only ones who don't realize it.
Edward Snowden
Down
Only
Am
Still
Improve
Trying
Realize
Working
Who
Now
Right
Bring
For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission's already accomplished. I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.
Edward Snowden
Work
Me
Change
Remember
Society
Validated
Everything
Able
Determine
Give
Had
Soon
Journalists
Mission
Terms
Because
Were
Been
Accomplished
Won
Itself
Trying
Personal
Want
Wanted
Personal Satisfaction
Should
Satisfaction
Chance
The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.
Edward Tufte
Work
Time
Knowledge
Long
Long Time
Guided
Idea
Forever
Trying
Create
Now
Things
Last
Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home.
Edwidge Danticat
Home
Family
Me
Complicated
Difficult
Back
Reach
Understand
Am
Still
Very
Trying
Happening
Grasp
Moments
Things
It is only by trying new things that we can hope to create products that are original. Don't just say those words; act like you believe them.
Edwin Catmull
Hope
You
Words
New Things
Believe
Say
Those
Only
New
Like
Trying
Just
Them
Create
Act
Products
Original
Things
Virtual reality's been around for 40 years. People have been talking about storytelling in that world for all these years, and there have been experiments around of people trying to do that, and always excited about it.
Edwin Catmull
Reality
People
World
Virtual
About
Excited
Talking
Around
Always
Been
Years
Trying
Experiments
Storytelling
I speak Italian and a little bit of French. I moved to Trento, Italy, when I was around 10 to learn Italian. I have family there. I'm trying to restart my French. And then I want to get into Mandarin.
Eiza Gonzalez
Family
Speak
Bit
French
Learn
Around
Italian
Italy
Get
Trying
Moved
Want
Little
Little Bit
Then
People have always wondered if I'm trying to push the envelope when it comes to my cinema - they keep questioning the visual graphics and the controversial content.
Ekta Kapoor
People
Cinema
Visual
Push
Envelope
Content
Always
Questioning
Wondered
Trying
Controversial
Graphics
Keep
I'm not a 'dystopian, futuristic master': I'm a schnook walking the street. It's an insane reality we're living in, and I'm just trying to translate it for myself.
El-P
Myself
Reality
Master
Living
Insane
Futuristic
Walking
Trying
Just
Dystopian
Translate
Street
I probably started trying to make beats at around 12.
El-P
Beats
Make
Around
Trying
Started
Labels are curators of taste, and the best ones know how to monetize what an artist is trying to do.
El-P
Best
Know
How
Labels
Trying
Taste
Artist
When I write songs, when I sing songs, I don't have anybody in mind. I'm just trying to express what I think people are feeling.
El DeBarge
People
Mind
Feeling
Think
Write
Songs
Sing
Trying
Just
Anybody
Express
As tough as it is for many college graduates to get their planned careers on track, it could be worse: They could be trying to find a job without a college degree.
Elaine Chao
Job
Degree
College
Tough
Worse
Find
College Degree
Could
Track
Without
Get
Trying
Graduates
Planned
Many
Careers
The Romans weren't trying to kill all the Jews, but they did destroy Jewish resistance to Roman rule. Jerusalem was turned into a Roman army camp, and it was a total devastation.
Elaine Pagels
Army
Jews
Rule
Destroy
Total
Devastation
Were
Camp
Trying
Did
Roman
Romans
Turned
Jerusalem
Resistance
Jewish
My idea of serenity - that wonderful word that everybody's trying to get into their life - is call-waiting.
Elaine Stritch
Life
Wonderful
Word
Everybody
Idea
Get
Trying
Serenity
I love who I am. But being a woman competing in a male-dominated sport and always trying to push the envelope as a female athlete, you get a lot of comparisons to men and things like that.
Elana Meyers
Love
You
Woman
Men
Athlete
Push
Envelope
Like
Sport
Female
Always
Am
Lot
Get
Trying
Being
Who
Comparisons
Things
Competing
I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve problems in creative ways.
Eleanor Catton
Creative
Writing
Problems
Think
Ways
Solve
About
Trying
Fiction
Fiction Writing
Creative Ways
Actually
I'm worried about doing my best, playing to my potential, helping out my teammates, and trying to win games for the Giants.
Eli Manning
Best
Win
Teammates
Worried
Giants
Out
About
Potential
Doing
Trying
Games
Helping
Playing
And so about many other things of the same nature, we are trying to make people believe these things, and we make creeds of them; and thus we continue to do our own will, which is the ground of all sin.
Elias Hicks
Nature
People
Will
Own
Believe
Other
Our
About
Thus
Sin
Make
Continue
Trying
Same
Which
Them
Ground
Many
Things
Creeds
I leave to the militarists the difficult task of trying to explain to us how these wars have served to shape character or to promote the progress of civilization or to achieve the reign of justice on earth. So far, they have not come forward with the explanation.
Elie Ducommun
Character
Justice
Progress
Achieve
Difficult
Earth
Promote
Civilization
Shape
Come
How
Leave
Task
Trying
Explain
Explanation
Far
Us
Forward
Wars
Reign
Served
Difficult Task
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