If I had tried to rush my destiny--as if destiny could be rushed!
And in law school, I had tried to do both without having to work in a bar or a restaurant.
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He sidled over to one of the boxes I had righted, and tried to tip it over.
Something overwhelming, which I neither had known nor tried to understand, made my heart pound.
"I've had to do everything - I've tried every kind of work, " he said.
So as I picked up the phone to chat with Dan Alban about the decision, I tried to keep in mind what my friend had said to me about preconceived notions.
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When my mother slipped into a coma for the last time, I had no doubt that everything that made sense to try had been tried.
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"I just tried to go out there and give it all I had, " said Harden, who left Houston's morning shoot-around because of a lack of energy and then slept all day.
It wasn't just self-congratulatory laughter at a high-brow joke. (OK, maybe a little.) I also had a laugh at myself: I've tried for so long to understand Philip Glass, and all it took was a one-act parody?
The staff checked my records to see if I had been phoned, and said that no-one had tried to contact me, and that it must therefore be a scam.
"I had a decent start and I just tried to keep my momentum going, " Merritt said.
Over the years, I had tried all sorts of diets and programs to tackle my weight problem.
In the beginning I tried to go alone but I had some problems with the front and decided just to concentrate on my rhythm.
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When I found myself at a pre-Fashion Week runway show last night, soaking in uber-cool choreography during a presentation by the denim line DL1961, I tried to forget about how I had answered my first e-mail at 7 that morning.
Before I embarked on iZO, I dutifully read through the website and was intrigued to see that this cleanse format was quite different than any I had tried in the past.
Molina went on to tell Lisette that they had tried to locate her father Duane David Mulvey to make the I.
"I tried to guide her in what it had been like for me and to say just treat everybody the same, don't be bringing politics, religion or anything into your job, you are there to serve everybody no matter what, " he added.
"I've tried the alternatives but they're just not the same, so I've had to have jam or peanut butter on my toast, " consumer Robyn Lonergan told Agence-France Presse news agency.
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But that's what they had to do at that point to go after it, and that was exactly what I would have tried to do, and that's what they did, and they're good at it.
If we hadn't played well and we were up four or five, they probably wouldn't have done that, but that's what they had to do at that point to go after it, and that was exactly what I would have tried to do, and that's what they did, and they're good at it.
"They were people who were genuinely concerned that there was a man who was out of work who had four children and as I understand it, they tried to help him for no other reason than out of human compassion, " Clinton told reporters in the Oval Office.
This is also the message that I have tried to convey in a few cases where I had a little influence.
"I just tried to go out there and give it all I had, " said Harden, adding that he slept all day.
"I just tried to be aggressive, " said Randolph, who had averaged 12 points and 9.4 rebounds in the past five games.
Asked whether he had changed his mind since then, Mr Clarke said he had not, although some people had tried to "carefully select little bits of what I said" to suggest a U-turn.
And as I think we described at the time, we had -- we tried to do an honest, conservative forecast to make sure that we were basing our budget numbers on sort of as close to the consensus and reasonable forecast as we can.
He had pulled 100% out of the market in October although I tried hard to keep him invested.
At first I tried to reason with CWO4 Averhart by telling him that I had been a model detainee and by asking him to just tell me what he wanted me to do and that I would do it.
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As I was trying to catch my breath, I took off my shirt, looked in the mirror and tried to convince myself that I was still that fit guy I had always thought I was.
As a comparison, I tried to send my Mom an Amazon Kindle book I knew she already had.
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