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But how can one criticise someone else's mother? One shouldn't, really... particularly as my first marriage failed.
Sarah Bradford
Marriage
Mother
First
Else
Criticise
Someone
Failed
Particularly
How
Really
At Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet Academy, I studied under a brilliant and fiery teacher. This tiny, stuttering old man flew into a rage if his students' white socks failed to reach mid-calf level. Nor could he tolerate floppy hair. We wore hairnets to class - an athletic brigade of short order cooks.
Sascha Radetsky
Teacher
Class
Man
Old
Brilliant
Hair
White
Rage
Athletic
Could
Students
Studied
He
Failed
Moscow
Reach
Academy
Stuttering
Ballet
His
Nor
Short
Tiny
Order
Wore
Fiery
Old Man
Flew
Cooks
Tolerate
Brigade
Level
Socks
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
Scott Adams
Success
Failure
Cartoonist
Failed
Obstacle
Most
Executive
Became
Because
Becoming
Springs
Goal
Successful
Largely
Americans who want a healthy and clean environment expect lawful, effective, and economically sound regulation - the Clean Power Plan failed on all three counts.
Scott Pruitt
Three
Power
Healthy
Lawful
Clean
Environment
Failed
Economically
Counts
Sound
Effective
Expect
American
Want
Plan
Regulation
Who
I have failed to continue to set an example for a secure, loving family unit as an example for our children. That is the reality of it. There is no way of getting around it.
Seal
Family
Reality
Example
Our
Way
Secure
Failed
Around
Continue
Getting
Family Unit
Children
Loving
Unit
Set
I deeply regret that those with the authority and responsibility to deal appropriately with Brendan Smyth failed to do so, with tragic and painful consequences for those children he so cruelly abused.
Sean Brady
Regret
Responsibility
Consequences
Those
He
Failed
Abuse
Deal
Tragic
Authority
Children
Painful
Deeply
May God forgive us for the times when we as individuals and as a Church failed to seek out and care for those little ones who were frightened, alone and in pain because someone was abusing them. That we did not always respond to your cries with the concern of the Good Shepherd is a matter of deep shame.
Sean Brady
God
Alone
Good
Matter
Care
Church
Pain
Cries
Those
Respond
Out
Seek
Someone
Shame
Failed
Individuals
Abuse
Concern
Because
Always
Shepherd
Were
Times
Frightened
Did
Forgive
May
Little
Them
Us
Your
Who
Deep
The Kosovars were granted autonomy at the end of World War II, but then aspiring president Milosevic had the autonomy revoked in 1989, and the Dayton Accords of 1995, which ended the recent war in Bosnia and Croatia, failed to address the issue of Kosovo's status.
Sebastian Junger
War
World
President
Address
Status
Croatia
Bosnia
Had
Failed
Dayton
Kosovo
Issue
Were
End
Ended
Which
Autonomy
Then
Granted
Aspiring
Recent
World War
World War II
In global health, emergency vaccine stockpiles are like the insurance policy you never really wanted to take out: you resent the cost and have mixed feelings about never making a claim. Moreover, given that a stockpile is often a last resort, if you ever fall back on it, you have, in some way, already failed.
Seth Berkley
Health
You
Feelings
Fall
Resort
Back
Way
Claim
Out
Some
About
Cost
Emergency
Given
Moreover
Take
Never
Failed
Like
Global
Policy
Insurance
Making
Mixed
Mixed Feelings
Often
Wanted
Really
Resent
Ever
Last
Vaccine
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.'
Shane Black
Work
Game
Films
Pleasures
Guilty
Failed
Like
Them
Watch
To me, there are certain things you lay claim to proudly and others you hope the people look over them, and for me, the NWA title throwdown is something that I wear like a badge of honor and what we did and what it achieved for ECW at the time, and ultimately we failed, but damn, we came close to grabbing those keys to the kingdom.
Shane Douglas
Hope
Time
Me
You
People
Honor
Damn
Others
Keys
Those
Claim
Wear
Kingdom
Something
Lay
Badge
Failed
Over
Like
Look
Proudly
Came
Ultimately
Close
Grabbing
Did
Achieved
Title
Them
Certain
Certain Things
Things
American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds. I think the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan proved it has completely failed to act as an effective fourth estate. And young people didn't sleep through that, as is widely believed; they learned instead not to trust what they were being told.
Shane Smith
Trust
People
Become
Young
Think
Incredibly
Through
Instead
Failed
Talk
Talk Radio
Partisan
Learned
Proved
Were
Iraq
Effective
American
Afghanistan
Just
Being
Estate
Young People
Act
Wars
Radio
Media
Believed
Widely
Fourth
Sleep
Sena under the leadership of Uddhav Thackeray has failed. It is a party on the decline, and that decline started the day Maharashtra Navnirman Sena was formed.
Sharad Pawar
Day
Leadership
Party
Failed
Formed
Decline
Started
I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I've picked myself up and gone on.
Sharon Stone
Life
Myself
Health
Marriage
Gone
Everything
Picked
Failed
Up
Biggest
Biggest Things
Things
Many comedic stars have tried to a do a 'Night at the Museum' type film, in which an everyday Joe reacts to insane circumstances. Many flat out failed.
Shawn Levy
Stars
Everyday
Type
Circumstances
Insane
Out
Joe
Tried
Failed
Comedic
Flat
Flat Out
Which
Many
Film
Night
Museum
I feel in my own life I've made many mistakes. I've failed in many directions.
Sheldon Harnick
Life
Made
Mistakes
Own
My Own
Directions
Failed
Feel
Many
We must have a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. forces - or at the very least a plan for it - something the administration has incredulously failed to do for over two years.
Sherrod Brown
Must
Administration
Something
Failed
Over
Withdrawal
Forces
Least
Years
Very
Timetable
Plan
Two
When I served as prime minister last time, I failed to prioritize my agenda. I was eager to complete everything at once, and ended my administration in failure. After resigning, for six years I traveled across the nation simply to listen.
Shinzo Abe
Time
Failure
Nation
Complete
Everything
Once
Minister
Administration
Simply
Failed
Prime
Prime Minister
Prioritize
Years
Ended
Listen
Six
After
Agenda
Across
Traveled
Eager
Served
Resigning
Last
Last Time
The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.
Simon Conway Morris
Life
Other
Must
Some
Constructs
Failed
Identify
Principle
Dealing
Itself
Which
Manner
When I was an adolescent in England, at school we had to read 'Death of a Salesman.' I remember feeling incredibly moved by the portrayal of these people and the idea with which Miller broached the whole subject of failure or failed systems, or the way that people are crushed by a system in which they find themselves.
Simon McBurney
Death
Failure
People
Remember
School
Feeling
Crushed
Incredibly
Way
System
Systems
Find
Adolescent
Had
Failed
Idea
Read
Subject
Salesman
Moved
Which
Themselves
England
Whole
Miller
Portrayal
Only time will tell in what ways Freud was prescient and in what ways he failed to understand how the mind functions. For example, no scientist and very few psychoanalysts still embrace Freud's death instinct.
Siri Hustvedt
Death
Time
Mind
Will
Example
Few
Ways
Tell
Embrace
Only
Only Time
He
Failed
Instinct
For Example
Understand
How
Still
Scientist
Freud
Very
Functions
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.
Slowthai
Myself
Human Being
Made
Mistakes
About
Failed
Learnt
Lot
Human
Being
Them
Then
Growth
I didn't get a Bachelor's degree - I got a Bachelor's of Fine Arts, which means I didn't have to take humanities, math, and stuff like that. I think I had to take Art History, which I failed a few times.
Stephen Furst
Art
History
Degree
Few
Humanities
Think
Bachelor
Fine
Fine Arts
Take
Had
Failed
Stuff
Like
Got
Math
Art History
Times
Get
Arts
Which
Means
Founders have continually struggled with and adapted the 'big business' tools, rules, and processes taught in business schools when startups failed to execute 'the plan,' never admitting to the entrepreneurs that no startup executes to its business plan.
Steve Blank
Business
Admitting
Big
Startup
Startups
Tools
Rules
Struggled
Entrepreneurs
Never
Failed
Execute
Schools
Big Business
Continually
Taught
Processes
Plan
Founders
Adapted
I think the idea of trying to demonize Governor Romney's going to backfire. Their attempts so far have failed pretty outstandingly and I think at the end of the day, people are going to say, 'what was Obama's record?' Governor Romney's got pro-growth Reaganesque proposals on the table.
Steve Forbes
Day
People
End Of The Day
Think
Say
Obama
Table
Record
Pretty
Proposals
Attempts
Failed
Idea
Got
Demonize
Governor
End
Trying
Pro-Growth
Going
Romney
Far
My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers - they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat.
Steve Sabol
Mind
Job
Picture
Sold
Hat
Hated
Brothers
Only
Marx
Ritz
Had
He
Failed
Like
Make
Him
Always
Were
His
Wanted
Movies
Working
Dad
Straw
Career
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