There's a great op-ed piece by Kurt Johnson, who runs The List Project, that I recommend everyone read. He was talking about how he's been trying to get out of Iraq who were our allies, who are now subject to torture, and their families are being killed because of their alliance to the United States.
I can't even use a can opener. I'm mechanically challenged. I ripped off two thumbnails trying to change kids' bicycle chains.
I'd love to be a hit in Germany. I'm working on trying to get a gig as David Hasselhoff's opening act.
War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can.
If you're on the side of the oppressor, or you're defending the oppressor, or you're actually trying to humanize the oppressor, then that's a problem.
Customers are now driven by trying to optimize value.
When you build relationships with entrepreneurs, they're not trying to optimize on price.
I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal.
I am just an ordinary person trying to do an ordinary job.
You don't really want nonagenarians as heads of organisations which are trying to do something useful.
In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.
'Orphans' reflects unconscious elements in myself that were, at the time, indigestible and butting up against each other in my psyche; issues I wasn't really in touch with but was trying to put into a dramatic framework.
If the wave is getting bigger, it causes the time to grow a little bit. If the wave is trying to contract, it reduces it a little bit. So, you can see this oscillation in time on the clock.
I have a short time to play this game. I'm trying to get every ounce of it out of my body.
At sleepovers I would have panic attacks trying to break it to girls that they didn't want to kiss me without outing myself.
People have been trying to make a two-hour feature film of 'Outlander' for years and years and years.
People are trying to find an outlet to tell their truth.
If I were a Chinese dissident, I'd be grateful that Cisco had helped bring the Internet to China, but I'd also be outraged that Cisco may have helped the cops keep me under surveillance and catch me trying to organize protest activities.
The Obama administration has been trying out a new policy toward Syria since the day it came to office. The Bush cold shoulder was viewed as a primitive reaction, now to be replaced by sophisticated diplomacy. Outreach would substitute for isolation.
I like to be one of those drummers who actually add to the music, not one of those guys who sit in a room 24/7 trying to outwit or outplay another drummer.
