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Bangkok is infamously mired in lurid contradiction, but it's also a city of subtle and distorted moods that journalism and film have hitherto mostly failed to capture.
Lawrence Osborne
Moods
Distorted
City
Mired
Failed
Journalism
Also
Mostly
Contradiction
Hitherto
Bangkok
Subtle
Capture
Film
I guess another message I'd like to say with this book is no matter how many times you fail... I failed a lot of times trying to get clean, and never thought I'd get to this point.
Lawrence Taylor
You
Book
Matter
Thought
Guess
Say
Clean
Point
Never
Fail
Failed
Like
Message
Another
How
How Many Times
Lot
Times
Get
Trying
Many
In a sinful world, no community can exist for long where nobody is ever held accountable: no teacher would grade a student's performance; no citizen would sit on a jury or call a failed leader to account.
Lewis B. Smedes
Teacher
World
Citizen
Long
Leader
Sit
Community
Would
Student
Failed
Performance
Nobody
Sinful
Call
Exist
Account
Accountable
Grade
Jury
Where
Held
Ever
We can't afford to see Afghanistan roll backwards into a failed state that could become a base from which terrorist campaigns can be launched anywhere in the world.
Liam Fox
World
Backwards
Become
State
See
Could
Failed
Terrorist
Campaigns
Afford
Roll
Afghanistan
Which
Anywhere
Base
After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work out.
Lindsey Buckingham
Work
Me
Down
Seventh
String
Easily
Out
Easy
Easy Thing
Could
Attempts
Step
Failed
Dropping
Weird
Couple
Fairly
Became
Got
Came
Up
Where
After
Tuning
Place
Work Out
Figures
Play
Thing
I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.
Lisa Marie Presley
Failure
Every
Think
Would
Taken
Failed
Test
Been
Ever
You can see that all these people who did really great things failed six times or didn't get going until they were much older. I think that's much more instructive and educational.
Lloyd Blankfein
Great
You
People
Great Things
Older
Think
See
More
Failed
Until
Were
Educational
Times
Get
Did
Going
Six
Much
Really
Who
Things
I had failed the psychological profiling of a terrorist. The central committee of the Red Brigades had judged me too single-minded and too opinionated to become a good terrorist.
Loretta Napoleoni
Good
Me
Become
Too
Had
Failed
Red
Judged
Opinionated
Terrorist
Single-Minded
Committee
Psychological
Central
Brigade
Profiling
The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration.
Lou Barletta
Government
Immigration
Tough
Federal
Federal Government
Failed
America
Officials
Getting
Elected
Us
Elected Officials
Illegal
Illegal Immigration
What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.
Lucy Powell
Government
Power
Lib
Failed
Offer
Any
Agenda
Meaningful
I want to thank all of the L.A. fans. You've never failed me. I live through you.
Luis Coronel
Me
You
Fans
Live
Through
Never
Failed
Thank
Want
BP should be Banned Permanently because they are too failed to be big.
Luis Gutierrez
Big
Too
Failed
Because
Permanently
Banned
Should
The Obamacare law has failed.
Luther Strange
Law
Obamacare
Failed
If you take the hard facts of a failed relationship, it's pretty grim. But if you make an album out of it, and if the violins represent all the tears, you create something magical out of something very normal.
Lykke Li
Relationship
You
Tears
Out
Pretty
Magical
Something
Take
Facts
Failed
Make
Normal
Very
Represent
Grim
Create
Hard
Album
When Netscape failed, it didn't mean the Internet was over.
Lynn Jurich
Internet
Netscape
Failed
Over
Mean
Even if the Constitution of the United States had intended to recognize slavery, as a constitutional state institution, such intended recognition would have failed of effect, and been legally void, because slavery then had no constitutional existence to be recognized.
Lysander Spooner
Constitution
State
States
Recognition
Recognize
Recognized
Would
Constitution Of The United States
Constitutional
Void
Had
Failed
Institution
Because
Been
Existence
Effect
Intended
Legally
Then
Even
United
United States
Slavery
The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.
M. Night Shyamalan
First
Directed
Could
Failed
Greatest
Greatest Thing
Happened
Movies
Thing
Two
MH370 is a Boeing 777 aircraft. It was built and equipped by Boeing. All the communications and GPS equipment must have been installed by Boeing. If they failed or have been disabled, Boeing must know how it can be done.
Mahathir Mohamad
Aircraft
Must
Disabled
Failed
Know
Built
Equipment
How
Equipped
Been
Done
Communications
Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed.
Marc Andreessen
Will
Every
Almost
Failed
Idea
Dot-Com
Succeed
I believe Theresa May has failed as leader of our party, which she threatens to destroy.
Mark Francois
Leader
Party
Believe
Our
Destroy
Threatens
Failed
She
May
Which
Theresa
I have failed 'Star Wars' trivia tests. People come up to me at conventions and use terms that I've never heard of.
Mark Hamill
Me
People
Trivia
Never
Failed
Come
Terms
Heard
Tests
Up
Conventions
Use
Wars
Star
Star Wars
I like to bet on people, especially those who have taken risks and failed in some way, because they have more real-world experience. And they're humble.
Mark Pincus
Risks
Experience
Humble
People
Way
Those
Some
Bet
More
Taken
Failed
Like
Because
Who
Millions of Americans were duped by the federal government and the Federal Reserve into buying homes they could not afford and failed to count the cost. When the financial crisis of 2008 hit, they could not keep up the monthly mortgage payments and defaulted.
Mark Skousen
Government
Financial
Monthly
Financial Crisis
Crisis
Cost
Could
Federal
Federal Government
Count
Federal Reserve
Failed
Mortgage
Were
Up
Hit
Duped
Afford
American
Payments
Reserve
Keep
Homes
Buying
Millions
I had been interested in science from when I was very young, but after a disastrous summer lab experience in which every experiment I tried failed, I decided on graduating from college that I was not cut out to be a scientist.
Martin Chalfie
Science
Experience
College
Young
Experiment
Every
Summer
Out
Tried
Had
Failed
Disastrous
Scientist
Been
Lab
Very
Graduating
After
Decided
Which
Interested
Cut
My belief is that when the military is used as the sole instrument of power, that never has a good outcome. If there's no one to take ownership and develop that failed state, human suffering can be even worse than that created by the conflict itself.
Martin Dempsey
Good
Suffering
Conflict
Power
Ownership
Military
State
Sole
Worse
Outcome
Take
Never
Develop
No-One
Failed
Instrument
Itself
Than
Human
Created
Used
Even
Even Worse
Belief
Human Suffering
Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale. The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan have both served to hasten western decline: they have both failed to achieve their objectives and in the process demonstrated an underlying western impotence.
Martin Jacques
History
Political
Achieve
Monumental
Scale
Hasten
Ability
Objectives
Both
Never
Leaders
Failed
Never Underestimate
Underestimate
Underlying
Impotence
Iraq
Western
Political Leaders
Afghanistan
Process
Decline
Served
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