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A lot of Americans think they got a tax cut, and they didn`t because their local property tax went up, their excise tax went up, their sales tax went up, and their prices went up and everything else, because we failed to invest in some of these other thin...
Senator John Kerry
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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Napoleon Hill
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Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulkner
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Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism
David Suzuki
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Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food
John Dos Passos
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Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food
John Dos Passos
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham Lincoln
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Running has never failed to give me great end results, and that`s why I keep coming back for more!
Sasha Azevedo
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Don`t try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
Marva Collins
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I failed to make the chess team because of my height.
Woody Allen
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I`ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I`ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I`ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I`ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan
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Top Gun is no different from Pirates of the Caribbean - in fact they`re very similar because both movies were working in genres that were dead. Fighter pilot movies had all failed and pirate movies had been dead for a long time. We approached them from a ...
Jerry Bruckheimer
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[on Claude Rains] He was a great influence on me. I don`t know what happened to him. I think he failed and went to America.
John Gielgud
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Her thoughts on why Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) failed at the box office: "I think the fans want to see the whole team in action, while that was very much Picard taking center stage. Also, I didn`t think Tom [Hardy] was at all convincing as a young Patrick ...
Marina Sirtis
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If I fail, at least I will have failed my way.
Jodie Foster
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[In May, 2005, on his impending divorce to Jennifer Aniston] The thing I don`t understand is looking at this as a failure. It`s talked about like it failed, I guess because it wasn`t flawless. Me, I embrace the messiness of life. I find it so beautiful, a...
Brad Pitt
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They say the most successful people are the ones who have failed more than they have succeeded.
Ioan Gruffudd
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Men are failed women at birth.
Gary Busey
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I don`t like to give the sob story: growing up in a single-parent home, never knew my father, my mother never worked, and when friends came over I`d hide the welfare cheese. Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don`t think it was necessarily `cause...
Eminem
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In my leaner days I failed many an audition because, I was told, I sounded "too black" . . . I`m certain the confusion was the direct result of the music that influenced me while I was developing my style. I guess I became the first of the so-called blue-...
Frankie Laine
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Every 36 seconds in America a women lays her body down, forced to choose abortion out of a lack of practical resources and emotional support. Abortion is a reflection that society has failed women.
Patricia Heaton
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[On Womens Rights]: The tried it the wrong way. You can`t expect anyone to take you seriously if you burn your undies and tell me I`m a pig. That`s why it failed. Too many ugly broads telling me that they don`t want to sleep with me. Who wanted you anyway...
Ernest Borgnine
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If you are not in America fast enough, it must have failed. When there is another thing like, maybe I don`t want to go to America. I mean, it`s not SO great there anyway...
Carice van Houten
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[During an interview on US television the interviewer asked who had inspired him] It was during my time at RADA, there was a man who inspired us all. Claude Rains. I don`t know what happened to him, I think he failed and went to America.
John Gielgud
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But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I`ve failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don`t get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me. But in small matters, I am not calm at...
Emma Thompson
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It was the opposite kind of love than we usually celebrate in films, which is new love without knowledge and without hardship. It`s the whole idea of love after life has had its way with you, and after you have kind of failed each other and things have go...
Sarah Polley
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We`ve all had a love of our life and failed love affairs. I`m just the biggest romantic - it`s really sad. I tell people that, but nobody listens.
Jennifer Lopez
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[On Hell`s Angels (1930)] "When I was making a personal appearance, I`d always sneak in the back of the house to watch the zeppelin airplane attack. I never failed to get a tremendous thrill out of it. I probably saw that scene hundreds of times."
Jean Harlow
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After being rejected by the Vietnam draft the first time, because he failed the `intelligence` portion, Casius said, "I never said I was the smartest, I said I was the greatest".
Muhammad Ali
