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I think it's unfair to say that Chinese companies are squeezing out American companies. China has so many solar companies that are failing, too.
Shi Zhengrong
Solar
Unfair
Think
Too
Say
Out
Failing
American
Squeezing
American Companies
China
Chinese
Companies
Many
I've always said if I'm winning at one thing, I'm failing at another.
Shonda Rhimes
One Thing
Winning
Failing
Another
Said
Always
Thing
Failing passionately is a success in its own right.
Simon Helberg
Success
Own
Failing
Passionately
Right
I have never met a successful person who talked about failing. The glass is always half full. I don't even like being around negative talkers.
Sir Mix-a-Lot
Negative
Half
Met
About
Never
Glass
Failing
Like
Half Full
Talked
Talkers
Around
Always
Person
Being
Successful
Successful Person
Full
Who
Even
I went to a failing school, and by the grace of God, my mother was able to put me into private school, and had she not, I would probably be in a gang or dead right now, because that was the road I was going down.
Stacey Dash
God
Me
Grace
School
Mother
Down
Would
Able
Had
Put
Road
Failing
Dead
She
Because
Private
Private School
Going
Gang
Now
Right
I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive.
Stephen Bayley
Character
Travel
Whatever
Else
Would
Something
Something Else
Rather
Failing
Identifying
Always
Am
Doing
Arrive
Than
Quite
Anything
Incapable
Planning
The third group is focused on counterintelligence and security. I think the reason for that is fairly evident, in terms of vulnerabilities of the department and the harm that can come to it by failing to detect when we have, in fact, been harmed.
Stephen Cambone
Group
Think
Evident
Focused
Security
Detect
Fact
Counterintelligence
Failing
Come
Terms
Fairly
Vulnerabilities
Been
Department
In Fact
Reason
Third
Harm
Harmed
When most people think of economists, they think of macro-economists. Macro-economists try to describe or - even harder - predict the movements of a hugely dynamic system. They're like a transplant surgeon trying to simultaneously transplant every failing organ in someone's body.
Stephen J. Dubner
People
Surgeon
Try
Predict
Organ
Every
Think
System
Someone
Failing
Simultaneously
Economists
Like
Most
Hugely
Trying
Movements
Dynamic
Body
Transplant
Describe
Even
Harder
With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. Failing to renew 'Terra Nova' is shortsighted, as myopic as it would have been to scrap the Hubble. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television.
Stephen Lang
Will
Telescope
Television
Correction
Would
Given
Myopic
Deliver
Failing
Renew
Been
Hubble
Scrap
Transcendent
Story-Telling
Shortsighted
Nova
Seasons
Images
Chance
I think there are really serious problems in this country and I think politics in a lot of ways is failing the country.
Steve Schmidt
Politics
Problems
Country
Think
Ways
Failing
Lot
Really
Serious
It's true, most of my days are spent alone in a dark room! I don't really want anyone to see me trying and failing to nail the 40th take of a simple piano cue.
Steven Price
Alone
Me
Dark
Simple
Spent
See
Piano
Take
True
Nail
Failing
Days
Most
Cue
Trying
Want
Anyone
Room
Really
But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.
Stuart Pearce
Education
Me
You
Yourself
Preparation
Give
More
Bottom
Bottom Line
Failing
Line
Less
Chance
We're living in a world where international governance is failing to overcome borders, but technology is succeeding in removing them.
Taavet Hinrikus
Technology
World
Overcome
Living
Borders
Failing
Removing
Governance
Where
Them
Succeeding
International
But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
Talcott Parsons
Word
Statements
No Reason
Fact
Investigate
He
Taking
Failing
Implicit
Involved
Him
His
Denies
Person
Theory
Reason
We will make the law clearer on parents' liability for failing to prevent their child being subjected to FGM, and we are working to improve the police response.
Theresa May
Law
Police
Will
Parents
Response
Prevent
Clearer
Failing
Make
Subjected
Child
Improve
Being
Working
Liability
I resolve to work with my colleagues to succeed in producing the good rather than failing to produce the perfect.
Thom Tillis
Work
Good
Resolve
Colleagues
Rather
Perfect
Failing
Than
Succeed
Produce
Producing
Whether it was turning around failing companies, rescuing the Olympics, or improving the business climate in Massachusetts, Mitt Romney has proven that he is ready to be president on Day One.
Tim Griffin
Day
Business
President
He
Day One
Failing
Massachusetts
Around
Ready
Climate
Mitt
Proven
Mitt Romney
Improving
Whether
Romney
Turning
Rescuing
Companies
Olympics
I don't care about failing because I do not want to sit down in my older years and say, 'How come I didn't try?'
Tony Fernandes
Try
Care
Sit
Down
Older
Say
About
Failing
Come
Because
How
Years
dont Care
Want
The scariest thing in my life is the first morning of production on all my movies. It's the fear of failing, the loss of face, and a sense of guilt that everybody puts their faith in you and not coming through.
Tony Scott
Life
Faith
Morning
You
Fear
Guilt
Face
My Life
First
Sense
Everybody
Scariest
Through
Puts
Failing
Coming
Loss
Movies
Production
Thing
According to the 'food waste pyramid,' ensuring that food is eaten by people is the top priority. Failing that, the next best thing is to feed it to farm animals.
Tristram Stuart
Best
Food
People
Animals
Farm
Top
Ensuring
Eaten
Feed
Failing
Pyramid
Priority
According
Next
Waste
Thing
My first show was called 'I Know I've Been Changed' in '92. I tried to do this show for years and years. It kept failing over and over and over again. Every time I went out to do the show, nobody showed up. I was like, 'What is this about?'
Tyler Perry
Time
First
Every
Changed
Every Time
Out
Tried
About
Failing
Nobody
Over
Like
Know
Been
Years
Years And Years
Up
Again
Show
Kept
You do feel bad when things don't work. But you cannot succeed without failing. It goes hand-in-hand.
Vaani Kapoor
Work
You
Bad
Failing
Feel
Without
Hand-In-Hand
Goes
Cannot
Succeed
Things
Living in Chicago, you have got to not be afraid about failing at something.
Valee
You
Living
About
Something
Failing
Got
Chicago
Afraid
It is easy to lay the blame on successive governments for failing to address health as a fundamental right for the Indian people. But the real tragedy is that we, the people of India, have not taken our government to task for this catastrophic failure.
Vikram Patel
Government
Health
Failure
Blame
People
Our
Address
India
Easy
Indian
Indian People
Lay
Taken
Catastrophic
Failing
Real
Tragedy
Governments
Task
Successive
Fundamental
Fundamental Right
Right
I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
Yandel
Music
Me
You
Own
My Own
Fail
Failing
Like
Know
Make
Decisions
I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.
Yvon Chouinard
Work
Nature
Capitalism
Change
Blame
Destruction
Try
Believe
Think
Our
Resources
Way
Those
About
Failing
Demands
Accepted
Model
Endless
Them
Should
Help
Companies
Displaced
Deserves
Growth
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