#tryin

If you ask almost any of them, 'Do you stand behind your theory? Is this the answer?' I think almost everyone would say, 'No, no, no. I'm just trying to expand the range of possibilities.' We really don't know what's going on. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#answer #any #ask #behind #everyone

I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew, the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids. ↗

— Katy Perry

#funny #guys #hung #i #kids

I'm competitive with myself, and that goes hand in hand with how I present myself. I'm not only trying to put one foot in front of the other, I'm trying to put my best foot forward. ↗

— Katy Perry

#competitive #foot #forward #front #goes

The goal is to have to do the shot again because the camera guy shook a little bit as he was laughing. Without that happening, I'm not happy because there's nothing better for me than a world that everybody's just trying to make each other laugh. ↗

— Matthew Perry

#because #better #bit #camera #each

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive. ↗

— Tyler Perry

#boy #face #i #just #name

We did it with passion; we didn't do it like everyone else. Teams nowadays are still trying to duplicate that, but no one has yet. We shuffled down and we did it. We did it in an unique fashion. ↗

— William Perry

#down #duplicate #else #everyone #fashion

Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else. ↗

— William Petersen

#becoming #dark #dark side #desperately #else

Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play. ↗

— Oscar Peterson

#any #cerebral #get #jazz #just

Well, the oil, the oil spot, if you will, is a, is a term in counterinsurgency literature that connotes a peaceful area, secure area. So what you're trying to do is to always extend that, to push that out. ↗

— David Petraeus

#area #counterinsurgency #extend #literature #oil

When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music. ↗

— Tom Petty

#been #bell #decided #done #giving