"The only failure is not to try."

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"The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council."

Boutros Boutros Ghali, Egyptian Public Servant

Failure, Nations, Security, United

"We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world."

Charles Kettering, American Inventor

Failure, Cause, Disgrace, Man

"Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again."

Henry Ford, American Businessman

Failure, Opportunity, Learning, Success

"Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty."

Lillian Hellman, American Dramatist

Failure, Theater, Writing

"The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?"

Aldrich Ames, American Criminal

Failure, Victory, Help, Information

"Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community."

H. G. Wells, English Author

Failure, Community, Crime, End

"Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?"

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Failure, Man, Old

"Failure is not the opposite of success, inaction is."

Rob Liano, American Author

Failure, Action, Success, Inaction

"To me he seemed one of those persons destined to failure of whom you wonder what purpose it can ever serve that they should have ben born."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Failure, Destiny, Purpose, Life

"Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes."

Pearl S. Buck, American Novelist

Failure, Paradox, Success, Learning

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"I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything."

Advice

"Who would name their kid Jack with the last words 'off' at the end of the last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up."

End

"You make a lot of films, do you? You make a lot of films yourself? Yeah, I'd like to see you make a film first before you get to talk about it. What a jerk."

Film

"I was watching 'Up In The Air' and I thought, 'Jesus, who's the old gray-haired guy?' And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now it's starting to show."

Movies

"I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of."

Weekend

"I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him."

Care

"I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film."

Actor

"It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen."

Men

"The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering' -come on. For us, even in the rotten ones we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer."

Time

"People know everything about everybody now."

People