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You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.
Camille Claudel

Women, Help, Woman

I'm one of those people who always tries to overachieve. I want to do more. I want to do bigger things.
Nik Wallenda

I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities.
Ken Burns

Future, Democracy, Through

It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.
R. L. Stine

Success, Children, Hard

A lot of the American press at the time was saying 'just watch what happens when Bertelsmann tries to buy EMI, that will be a moment of truth that will show the Commission's true colors.' Well, that deal never happened either.
Mario Monti

Time, Truth, True

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.
Frederick Jackson Turner

Age, Time, History

Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.
Lawrence Lessig

Freedom, Past, Lost

That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous.
Atom Egoyan

Dad, Give, Advice

I'm not an angry person. When I write, the lawyer in me tries to make it as easy to read as possible.
Joe Scarborough

Angry, Person, Easy

Sometimes when, you know, God tries to correct you in private and if you don't catch it he'll correct you in public.
Star Jones

God, Sometimes, Public

I'm the type of person who tries to save the world.
Timbaland

Person, Save, Type

The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.
Gary Locke

Education, Attitude, Long

There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.
George P. Baker

Between, Comedy, Point

Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction.
Alphonsus Liguori

Health, Tell, Whether

The Bible tries to make humans not animals the whole time. I think it's a bit of a mistake.
Neko Case

Time, Whole, Mistake

Let's face it: Engineering companies in general have more men than women. Google has tried really hard to recruit women. On the other hand, we have a standard. Google tries to recruit the best engineers.
Susan Wojcicki

Women, Men, Best

Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.
Bill Owens

Leadership, Powerful, Leader

She tries to get a waitressing job for a while - I mean, she's looking for a while before she finds Coyote Ugly - and it's hard to get a waitressing job in the city.
Piper Perabo

Job, Hard, Mean

I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music, sex, race, or consumerism. I try to examine it and scrutinize it to the point where I can write a song.
Macklemore

Music, Sex, Someone

During the whole 'Jeopardy' experience, I felt like I was living a bit of a double life, I would be secretly flying out to L.A. to tape new shows, hoping that none of my coworkers would notice the absence and figure out what was going on. 'Jeopardy' tries very hard to keep their secrets.
Ken Jennings

Life, Experience, Hard

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.
Robert Stack

End, Find, Creative

I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until some of the slanderous material sticks.
Joe Scarborough

Change, Politics, Time

Unfortunately, in collective bargaining one party or the other too often tries to gain an advantage - a bargain, like buying something in a store for less than it is worth.
Charles E. Wilson

Often, Worth, Less

The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people.
James Randolph Adams

Hard, Trouble, Common

Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.
Donald Sutherland

Someone, Fire, Bitterness

Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.
Ted Kotcheff

Vision, Film, Fine

The force I represent is Virginia's New Mainstream. It looks forward, not backwards. It tries to unify people, not divide them.
Douglas Wilder

Forward, Looks, Force

I was slightly disappointed, but also encouraged, because I put myself in position to win a major, which is all even Tiger says he tries to do.
Stuart Appleby

There is no doubt that this film is autobiographical, but at the same time it also tries to portray an ordinary couple in a language that everyone can understand.
Sophie Marceau

Time, Doubt, Understand

Every time somebody calls me out or tries to start something, it's motivation.
Ryan Sheckler

Time, Start, Motivation

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