W. L. George Quotes
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
Barack Obama -
Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
Orhan Pamuk -
I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor.
Taylor Sheridan -
If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
Salman Rushdie -
I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
B. F. Skinner
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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.
Cameron Mackintosh -
It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.
Edmond H. Fischer -
Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.
Natalie Massenet -
Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.
Yeardley Smith
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Translation is the art of failure.
Umberto Eco -
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham Lincoln -
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Coco Chanel -
The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.
David Suzuki -
If taxpayers want better results from Congress, they must stop paying their elected officials for failure. After all, you get what you pay for.
Jim Cooper -
The thing is, I feel like it would defeat the purpose of being a musician if I let any kind of fear of failure affect my songwriting or making an album or whatever.
Frankie Cosmos
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I don't want a lot of strangers looking down at my wrinkles and my big fat belly when I'm dead.
Clark Gable -
Living without passion is like being dead.
Jungkook BTS -
To me, I never get too caught up in the position thing. At the end of the day, you're playing your game.
Blake Griffin -
My thing was always trying to do as much as I possibly could do. I wanted to do all the things the other kids did in the neighborhood.
Stevie Wonder -
Why do they have to move in packs?" Harry asked Ron as a dozen or so girls walked past them, sniggering and staring at Harry. "How're you supposed to get one on their own to ask them?" "Lasso one?" Ron suggested.
Joanne Rowling -
He's no failure. He's not dead yet.
W. L. George