#trying

It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#african #ashamed #doing #easy #educated

I sort of try to write everything for me. I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio. I'm trying to make sure the jokes are self-contained so they're accessible to everyone. ↗

— Norm MacDonald

#ago #bowls #everyone #everything #fan

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it. ↗

— Whitey Herzog

#been #good #i #i quit #me

I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK. ↗

— John Malkovich

#confidence #crush #i #i think #immediately

I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#art #art form #especially #form #i

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.' ↗

— Mickey Mantle

#ever #every #every time #hit #home

Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground. ↗

— Marc Maron

#comes #fly #ground #here #i

What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness. ↗

— George Martin

#always #birds #bit #convey #emptiness

The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn. The more I do it, the more I'm humbled. I'm just always trying to get better at it. I pick up a few tricks along the way. ↗

— Cliff Martinez

#always #because #better #come #feel

We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might enjoy listening to ourselves. If anything we are trying to develop a vocabulary so we can converse more fluidly. ↗

— Pat Mastelotto

#buddies #converse #create #develop #enjoy