This collection holds 13 life people trying quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are J. J. Watt, Penelope Wilton and Mauro Ranallo.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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My whole life, I've been trying to make people proud.

Mostly in life people are trying not to have emotions.

I'm trying to show people that you can have any kind of life you want.

People are not enjoying life because they're trying to be something or brand themselves.

Most people spend their life trying to get away from Catholicism. Amazingly, I chose it.

A lot of people go through life trying to perform normalcy, and I think you can relate to that.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.

What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?

You know you're on stage being the life of the party and trying to get laughs, and then, in a lot of ways, you don't have anything to give once you give it to the people.

In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.

In life, people talk at right angles. One asks a question, and the other replies in part, then uses that part to move the conversation to something else. Everyone has an agenda, has something they're trying to say - or not say.

I had an instinct to gravitate towards people who were smarter than I was, teachers that were nice people that were trying to do things in life that were constructive, and that's what I gravitated to instead of what I saw and what I was in.

Marvel heroes, at their core, are people who are damaged, are people that are trying to figure out who they are in life. And that doesn't matter whether or not they're X-Men characters or they're Matt Murdock or they're Tony Stark or they're Peter Parker... That's where it starts.

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