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Egypt under Hosni Mubarak had deteriorated to the status of a failed state. We must wipe the slate clean and start again.
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
Without a clear diagnosis of why the candidate or party failed, there can be no clear consensus about how to move forward.
When the music business failed to embrace the Internet, I thought it was game, set and match for the industry, and I quit.
Whatever your issue, your cause, the festering problem you thought would be resolved - the political class has failed you.
If people ridicule you, look them in the eye and say, 'Yeah, I may have failed, but at least I tried,' and get on with it.
A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
I was going to be the best failed novelist in Paris. That was certainly not the worst thing in the world that one could be.
Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasn't able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.
If we don't build a company as influential as Google or Facebook, then we failed. I'm, like, perpetually stressed, honestly.
It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game.
There's nothing worse than walking around and talking about your failed relationship, all day, every day, for months on end.
I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.
I predict after this whole thing is over, what we'll remember about the failed candidacy of Donald Trump is, 'You're fired.'
I routinely failed to understand that 'simple and straightforward' would have been a much better product strategy for Lotus.
I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.
I have these guilty pleasures, these failed films that don't work at all, but I'll watch them if they're on. Like 'The Game.'
Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.
I knew I wanted to try comedy and acting. Even if I failed, at least I would have tried. It's better than never having tried.
So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.
You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!
There's no denying it: I was a crappy baby who failed his way into this world, and I've been making the best of it ever since.
I spend a little bit of time exploring why the companies that were doing smartphone ride-hailing before Uber, why they failed.
Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art.
I didn't want to be known as the reality-show star trying to be an actress, so I kept a lot of the failed auditions to myself.
The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.
My father's really fluent in French, but I can't speak at all. I actually took it twice in school already and failed both times!
True hopefulness and optimism is what leads one to dare. It is also what lifts one back up to dare again after a failed attempt.
I failed the most important people in my life, you know, on September 8, 2009. People who were relying on me more than anything.
Narendra Modi is a bubble. After elevation in his party, his first test was the Karnataka election. He failed miserably in that.
If you are trying to achieve the 'perfect body' or aspiring to be like someone else, you are only going to feel like you failed.
The broken VA disability claims process has failed to adequately aid veterans with toxic exposure during their military service.
Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.
This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed.
I'm very drawn to the way in which a life lived can be an art of sorts or a failed art, and a life-lived-told can be art as well.
My dad's a photographer. So I suppose he named me Ansel just in case I would take over the family business. I guess I failed him.
I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.
A lot of paparazzi wanted to be real photographers but they failed, and they did that instead, and it's not right; it's stalking.
I'm about growth for myself. So if I've made a lot of mistakes, and I haven't learnt from them, then I've failed as a human being.
In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact.
A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.
In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.
People don't ever have to starve to death; there are solutions. We have failed if we can't eradicate hunger in Africa and Ethiopia.
Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated. I'm also a very loving person.
It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies of Kim Jong Il.
I personally feel I will have failed if I do not make progress toward making us the most inclusive and diverse workforce in the U.S.
I was a failed actor, but for 25 years, I got to go on stage anyway, and I loved it. I've still got the day job, and the travel bug.
When I'm creating, that's my heaven. If I haven't designed something every day, it is a failed day - that's how much I love fashion.
The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That's why al Qaeda was there in the first place.