"Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen."

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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

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"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

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

Henry Ford, American Businessman

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"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

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"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

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"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

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

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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

Rob Liano, American Author

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"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

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

Pearl S. Buck, American Novelist

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"I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check."

Movies

"You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted."

Life

"I'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people."

People

"What are we blaming? Is this Vietnam? We made a movie, it didn't make much money. I'm gonna be really happy if somebody watches it in 10 years' time and really enjoys it."

Time

"I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films."

Movies

"When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble."

History

"We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock."

Chance

"I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen."

Work

"I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?"

Change

"I like when my face tingles, when the hair on the back of my neck stands up."

Hair