Chuck D. Trying Quotations

I think everyone's expectations are higher this year. They want us to score more goals. It's something that we know in the locker-room what we're trying to do and it's not like it's a secret that we haven't figured that out yet.

John does a pretty good job of keeping his composure. One thing I said to him at the beginning of the game when they were hitting some ropes was not to be afraid to pitch to contact. Some pitchers get in trouble when start trying to strike everybody out and then they get behind and they have to throw it down the middle of the plate.

We are trying to ascertain as quickly as possible whether more victims received fake flu shots and whether they, too, are at risk, ... Other charges may follow.

We were all figuring out ways to build an image rather than paint it. Sculptors didn't want to work in bronze or marble or wax. They wanted to find a material that didn't have any art use. We were similarly trying to find ways of working that were not about paint-it-in, paint-it-out, scrape-it-off -- some way of working all over at once.

Try to do your best to look people in the eye and talk to them without a gadget being in between you all the time.

Every time something tries to create respect with a machine it crumbles!

So, rather than trying to humbly mix with the rest of the world, we are forcing ourselves upon it. We seem to create conflicts with everyone.

I would like to say is that to be truly American and represent American ideals you need to consider yourself a citizen of the world. American policy has gone contrary to that ideal. The Bush Administration is bent on making the world submit to "Americanism" instead of becoming a member of the world community. This orchestration comes from the very top of the Administration and has pushed America into a corner. So, rather than trying to humbly mix with the rest of the world, we are forcing ourselves upon it. We seem to create conflicts with everyone.

Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound.

The truth has no form, you know. It's not like walking around trying to actually ask for favors and to be acknowledged, it is what it is.

I wanna go to the clubs and actually have a good time too, but at the same time, when the party's over, I have to go back to the real world and try to figure out who I am.

Try to find like-minded people. Don't choose your friends based on the outside, choose your friends based on your similar views or something that you can learn from.

Try to master technology instead of it mastering you.

We're trying to plan right now what will happen in September.

We don't want to create future environmental problems by trying to solve this one.

As the primary group responsible for student rights, I don't understand why we've been cut out of the table. It appears they're trying to avoid our involvement, thinking we're too extreme.

The old guy had been trying to light his fire with paper money.

When she first started, the program was trying to get its feet on track. In the four years since she's been here, we can compete with anyone now.

It's like trying to hold back a 50 mile-per-hour gale. You can do it for so long before it gets a hold of you.