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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
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
Fidel Castro
American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.
Serj Tankian
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Samuel Smiles
There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
Max Beerbohm
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
George Bernard Shaw
My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.
Mahatma Gandhi
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
Jack Lemmon
Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
Don Shula
When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be,'out of there.'
Elizabeth Pena
Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
Joseph Barbera
It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.
Arthur C. Danto
Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.
Doug Coupland
Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
Victor Kiam
It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
Jimmy Carter
I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.
Mike Krzyzewski
My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!
Takeshi Kitano
