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There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.

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.

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

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

Failure is success if we learn from it.

The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China.

Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.

War remains the decisive human failure.

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.