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Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

If you are 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.

One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they are a lead. I think that is a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience.

Failure? Scared to death of it.

I have always believed that it is important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

I have always believed that it is important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

My films seem to be about men is struggle with failure.

I do not want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She is the best thing I have ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better.

I am not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you are stupid.

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It is about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries failure to advance.

I did not fear failure. I expected failure.

I think I have always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.

The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.