Reince Priebus (Reinhold Richard Priebus) Quotes
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.
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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.
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
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I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we're failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones.
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While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.
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Translation is the art of failure.
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My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know.
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I love language, and I love the failure of language.
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The essential purpose of Christianity was to transform human society into the kingdom of God by regenerating all human relations and reconstituting them in accordance with the will of God. ...I have never met with any previous attempt to give a satisfactory historical explanation of this failure.
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Each play was, for me, 'a different kind of failure.' And that fact, I suppose, sent me on to write the next one. (15)
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Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages.
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There is something impure in the laments about the dangers of our time, as if they could serve to excuse our personal failure.
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If taxpayers want better results from Congress, they must stop paying their elected officials for failure. After all, you get what you pay for.
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Failure is essential. Trial and error is necessary.
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If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.
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I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.
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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
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I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told, and I have squandered my resistance, for a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises. All lies in jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest...la-la-la-la-la-la-la-lala-la-la-la-la...
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I think my darkest days were probably when I was catering. I would go to these parties and pass out hors d'oeuvres, and it's like you're invisible. I remember one catering captain told me that all you are is a tray that comes into their space for a moment and then you leave. It was one of the most depressing things I've ever been told.
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The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.
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I just saw Memento. It's very, very good. I watch a lot of French films.
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My life and work are not separate. I just have more roles than other people. And I have photographs.
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It is a massive, undeniable failure and a heap of broken promises.
