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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 is not in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.

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.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I have never considered failure.

Well, I think it is too early to call Fallujah a failure.

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.

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. Do not get disappointed.

I am fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I have wired myself for failure.

Before I was married, I did not 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 did not do do-it-yourself. When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

I do not have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I am willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you are always risking a lot. You are risking failure, especially if you are improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.

We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It is fertiliser, it is like living fertiliser, because you are forced on yourself.

I am kind of a failure. I mean, I will be honest. I am successful in that I am getting to work on great stuff, but I think I am a failure in all the personal stuff that is most important to me.

I get asked, How can you have such failures in your films? Well, what else is life about? There is some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.

African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.

Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

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.