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Quote by Tennessee Williams
I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. – Tennessee Williams

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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think thats true of everyone, dont you? – Tennessee Williams

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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going. – Tennessee Williams

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Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure. – Alvin Adams

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You dont fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. – Jim Rohn

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After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks. – Kurt Student

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Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it. – Mia Hamm

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Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. – Richard Bach

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Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith – even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity. – Karen Armstrong

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Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people. – Steve Busby, in Washington Post, 8 July 1974

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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property. – Cornel West

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