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Disappointment Quotes
"I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one."
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"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."
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"Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations."
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"Reality is the name we give to our disappointments."
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"Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully."
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"The episodes all blend together for me, so I don't remember. I can't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning. I always feel I must be such a disappointment to them."
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"I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment."
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"I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments."
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"Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!"
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"What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done."
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"Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments."
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"Hope meets a dead end when the only chance in sight comes to naught."
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"All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile."
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"Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment."
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"Unfortunately, you know, working in a spirit of cooperation and respect requires someone else to reach back, and I don't think that's happened and it's been disappointing because the debate in our country has become so rancorous."
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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."
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"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."
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"Disappointment is the end of an illusion."
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"I got so I was really just sick of sculpture."
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"You know what's the worst? Having realistic, ordinary expectations taken out of your reach by seemingly unrealistic, extraordinary circumstances."
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"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."
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"The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I'm going to be disappointed."
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"What I'm saying... I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary."
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"Can't even feel dissapointed when seeingheaven ain't as wonderful as ever expected."
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"Disappointment has quite a penchant for taking one by a surprise."
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"Its not your fault for not being there.Its my fault for thinking you would be."
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