Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You're basically saying, 'I can't make this other food taste good, so I'll throw in bacon.'
Penn Jillette
FailureGoodFoodSayingYouTaste
'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.
Alan Arkin
FailureConnectedYearsThingsOff
For us, there is no such thing as failure. You can't miss a deadline; you can't come up short on an assignment. You have to perform, period.
Daniel Berehulak
FailureShortYouDeadlineUpMiss
The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.
Jon Meacham
FailurePrayerSchoolMoreRight
My personality is based on an anonymity and failure. Failure and anonymity, those are my strengths - superiority from below.
James Murphy
FailurePersonalityStrengthsThose
Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.
Zach Wamp
FailureMedicalGovernmentControl
Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.
Steve Forbes
FailureMistakeWorldEarlyDare
I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
Paulo Coelho
SuccessFailureGoodThinkYou
I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.
Wesley Snipes
FailureThreeConvictedFormFile
All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
FailureConfidenceFaithTrustNeed
People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!
Don Johnson
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I think that Obama's failure to reestablish the rule of law in money matters is the most damaging thing that he's done - and perhaps the most damaging thing that has happened in American politics in my lifetime. Because once the rule of law is absent in money matters, then anything really goes in politics.
James Howard Kunstler
FailureMoneyPoliticsLawThink
I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.
Yi So-Yeon
FailureBusinessGovernmentSpace
Jill Eisenstadt's comic second novel, 'Kiss Out,' is a work of such extravagant wackiness, eccentricity, and exuberance that any attempt to squeeze it into the confines of a simple plot summary seems doomed to failure and is possibly pointless.
Stephen McCauley
WorkFailureSimpleKissOutPlot
I am far more comfortable with failure than I ever will be with success.
Shekhar Kapur
SuccessFailureI AmComfortableFar
Pure unadulterated success is not as funny as failure.
Will Arnett
FunnySuccessFailurePure
Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
Daisaku Ikeda
NatureFailureHappinessResultGoal
For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.
Dominick Dunne
SuccessFailurePathMeHopeless
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Herbert Kaufman
SuccessFailureCouragePersistence
African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.
Xavier Becerra
FailureGivingWhiteUpPopulation
There were times in 'Adaptation' during the editing where I really thought, 'Okay, well, this was a noble failure. I tried to do something good, but this is not going to work.'
Spike Jonze
WorkFailureGoodThoughtOkayWell
Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.
Shah Rukh Khan
LifeSuccessFailurePermanentPart
Failure is inherent in the game. So if you don't respond well to adversity, you're probably not going to have a long career.
Theo Epstein
FailureAdversityGameYouCareer
Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
E. Franklin Frazier
LifeFailurePoliticsChurchWalks
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