A. J. Jacobs
A. J. Jacobs

I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.

A. J. Jacobs
A. J. Jacobs

There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.

Aaron Dessner
Aaron Dessner

I tried hard not to think about the scope or scale of making a record that would be heard by millions and millions of people. I did a pretty good job of tuning that out.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

When she was in United States, we maintained contact, we talked to each other on the phone, almost every night. And there was one occasion I tried to fix this video conferencing but somehow it did not come out very well enough so better to talk on the phone.

Abigail Washburn
Abigail Washburn

I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.

Ad Reinhardt
Ad Reinhardt

I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.

Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace

I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did - I was not thinking quite what I was about. The sums can be done better, if I tried, than they are.

Ada Yonath
Ada Yonath

Once, when I tried to calculate the height of the balcony, I broke my arm. Another time, I wanted to see if water moves faster than kerosene. When my father came out to smoke, a fire broke out.

Ada Yonath
Ada Yonath

Even if I tried to fill up the stadium in Ramat Gan, I don't think I could.

Adam DeVine
Adam DeVine

I tried out for my basketball team every year and I never made it. You had to buy the shoes before you knew if you were on the team because it took a few weeks for them to ship. I bought the shoes every year, never once made the team, had a ton of high school basketball shoes.