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I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Else, Dance, Anyone

When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
Carly Fiorina

Angry, May, Happen

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
Ernie Banks

Happiness, Happy, Yourself

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Long, Him, Rather

I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional.
Jerry Garcia

Music, Best, Emotional

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
Russell Baker

Children, May, Grow

If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it.
Donald Rumsfeld

Everybody, Somebody, Please

A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.
John Avlon

Someone, Political, Rather

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
Samuel Beckett

Time, Next, Fail

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.
Lady Gaga

Love, Art, Teacher

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How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
Maurice Maeterlinck

Words, Soon, Express

We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare its neighbors and others. But the choice is really up to Iran and we're going to keep working to try to come out with the right decision.
Hillary Clinton

Decision, Working, Others

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.
Hillary Clinton

Great, Brain, Off

You don't know what you can get away with until you try.
Colin Powell

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.
Peter Drucker

Change, Work, Country

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Done, Often, Times

As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun.
Tiger Woods

Fun, Thought, Used

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
Arthur Schopenhauer

Money, Win, Thoughts

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
John Ruskin

Time, Good, Strong

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
Alan Watts

Sense, Image, Myth

The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I'm out there on the basketball court.
Kobe Bryant

Ego, Basketball, Black

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
Omar Khayyam

Today, Tomorrow, Happen

A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.
Barbara Cartland

Marriage, Good, Women

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.
Bernard Meltzer

God, Yourself, Made

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
Mignon McLaughlin

Why, Else, While

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
Woody Allen

God, Sunday, Finding

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
Leo Tolstoy

War, Conscience, Themselves

You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.
Emil Zatopek

Goal, Bitterness, High

I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.
Olivia Munn

Life, Change, Age

And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.
Roger Ebert

Different, Both, Opinions

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