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Ethan Hawke on failure
Author: Ethan Hawke“The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.” -Ethan Hawke
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Kevin Smith on failure
Author: Kevin Smith“There’s something to be said for failing. It’s not the failure you feel, it’s the failure that people project when something disappoints. You’re back to ground zero, where there’s no expectations, and that’s where I like to be.” -Kevin Smith
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Whoopi Goldberg on failure
Author: Whoopi Goldberg“We’re born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.” -Whoopi Goldberg
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Larry Elder on failure
Author: Larry Elder“America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone’s going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism – or, at least, we used to.” -Larry Elder
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Trisha Yearwood on failure
Author: Trisha Yearwood“Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn’t an option to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn’t able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.” -Trisha Yearwood
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Ben Okri on failure
Author: Ben Okri“The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.” -Ben Okri
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Chris Hedges on failure
Author: Chris Hedges“The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.” -Chris Hedges
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Jeff Goodell on failure
Author: Jeff Goodell“Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.” -Jeff Goodell
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Alexander Payne on failure
Author: Alexander Payne“I get asked, ‘How can you have such failures in your films?’ Well, what else is life about? There’s some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.” -Alexander Payne
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Paul Feig on failure
Author: Paul Feig“I’m kind of a failure. I mean, I’ll be honest. I’m successful in that I’m getting to work on great stuff, but I think I’m a failure in all the personal stuff that is most important to me.” -Paul Feig
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Rupert Everett on failure
Author: Rupert Everett“We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It’s fertiliser, it’s like living fertiliser, because you’re forced on yourself.” -Rupert Everett
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David Walliams on failure
Author: David Walliams“I don’t have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I’m willing to risk quite a lot – as a comedian, you’re always risking a lot. You’re risking failure, especially if you’re improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.” -David
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Mira Sorvino on failure
Author: Mira Sorvino“We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.” -Mira Sorvino
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Ayelet Waldman on failure
Author: Ayelet Waldman“Before I was married, I didn’t consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn’t do ‘do-it-yourself.’ When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he
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Ron Perlman on failure
Author: Ron Perlman“I’m fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I’ve wired myself for failure.” -Ron Perlman
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Niklas Zennstrom on failure
Author: Niklas Zennstrom“You shouldn’t be afraid of failure – when something fails, you think, ‘What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.’ Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don’t get disappointed.” -Niklas Zennstrom
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Edward Bach on failure
Author: Edward Bach“The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.” -Edward Bach
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Charles Schumer on failure
Author: Charles Schumer“Well, I think it’s too early to call Fallujah a failure.” -Charles Schumer
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Jennifer Lawrence on failure
Author: Jennifer Lawrence“Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I’ve never considered failure.” -Jennifer Lawrence
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John Drinkwater on failure
Author: John Drinkwater“So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.” -John Drinkwater
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Dave Matthews on failure
Author: Dave Matthews“I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.” -Dave Matthews
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Sarah McLachlan on failure
Author: Sarah McLachlan“Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.” -Sarah McLachlan
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Jensen Ackles on failure
Author: Jensen Ackles“Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn’t in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.” -Jensen Ackles
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Dean Kamen on failure
Author: Dean Kamen“My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.” -Dean Kamen
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Jean Kerr on failure
Author: Jean Kerr“I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.” -Jean Kerr