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"Reality is the name we give to our disappointments."
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"I've had disappointments and heartbreaks and setbacks and roles I didn't get, but something always came along that either made me better or was an even better role."

"You see, until then I'd been driven. I'd had a true quest, a purpose beyond my function - and then suddenly, the quest was over. I felt... drained. Disappointed. Let down.Does that make sense? I had been sure that as soon as I had everything back I'd feel good. But inside I felt worse than when I stared."

"Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments."

"Disappointment is the end of an illusion."

"When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band."

"I think the intelligent thing about it is that you have to carefully listen to it all to grasp it, and because I'm not in every scene - colossal disappointment to everybody that it may be - I'm not getting the full picture here today while recording it."

"Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations."

"What I'm saying... I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary."

"You know what's the worst? Having realistic, ordinary expectations taken out of your reach by seemingly unrealistic, extraordinary circumstances."

"Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment."
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"Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining."
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