I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
When I am on the blocks, I don't care who you are - I will always try and beat you.
I would feel so guilty about lying that I would try to stress myself out and work up a headache so I wouldn't have the guilt of not having a bit of the symptom.
There are so many people who try so hard and have such big dreams, and it doesn't happen for them.
If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
I'm not a chui-mui.
I try to do something every day. I lift weights at least three to four days per week, and I'll intersperse that with cardio. For example, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I'll run and do heavy lifting, and on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, I'll spend two hours lifting weights, as well as something like swimming.
Each week, I post a video about some 'Pigeon of Discontent' raised by a reader. Because, as much as we try to find the 'Bluebird of Happiness,' we're also plagued by those small but pesky 'Pigeons of Discontent.'
I try to embrace people with love, unconditional love, like Christ did.
I've committed myself to perfecting the art of the straight man. I try really hard not to crack up.
I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.
A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.
It's just a challenge doing live television every week; you know, it's a challenge to come up with new material every week and stuff like that and try to keep it current, you know what I mean? Like, it's just, you know, it's a kind of a stressful environment.
I think maybe the English don't want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.
There are athletes and celebrities that are out there and they Twitter and they constantly try to drum up press because they're narcissists.
Whenever I travel to a poor country, I try to help at least one person. Usually, that person helps me just as much - I can find a local poor person to be my guide or my interpreter. That person makes money from me, I make money from him or her, we both learn about each other. It's an equal win-win relationship.
Having no competition is a bad thing. Competition makes you try to improve yourself all the time.
The more you play against teams and defenders, the more you get to know them. You know if they are more nervous; you know, on the pitch, people are different. I try to adapt to their character.
I'll have wine or a piece of cake once in a while, but I don't look at it as sliding backwards, even if I go a whole week without working out. I don't dwell on it and beat myself up - I just try to have a healthier day tomorrow.
I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say.
I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.
I just try to stick to clean foods, anything grilled like salmon, chicken, fish, brown rice, and veggies. I do have a really big sweet tooth, so I try to curb my cravings with fruit instead.
If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.
From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.
The reason so many celebrities try to keep things secret is you want the chance to get to know someone without the glare of public scrutiny.
I think, first of all, you need to love what you're doing, and then this helps in the comedian for its part in everything-but the moment you enjoy what you're doing, you try to express yourself, to find your way, and every time is different, of course.
One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try to strengthen them.
Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.
People have lost their faith that if they work hard, if they try to get ahead, if they play by the rules, then that will ultimately result in positive outcomes.
As an actor, you never try to be someone else. You can't.
My feeling is there's a lot of straight drama on television. My goal in life is to try to create something unexpected, and genre is the tool in doing that.
I always try to do something different. I don't think I've made the same record over and over.
The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.
But if I wasn't playing, I would drink Saturdays, then Sunday, then Monday. Then I would try and train and it was no good, then have another drink just to pass the day away.
One of the lessons learned in the Middle East is to never try to anticipate the other side's moves.
However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.
