"My biggest adjustment has been learning not to be afraid to fail."

-- Johnny Damon

#Failing Quotes

“I am the hero of Africa.”

Source : Attributed in "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations" by James Beasley Simpson, (p. 1), 1988.
“The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.”
“Your brain receives, stores, and processes information, dispenses results, and controls your biological equipment. When properly programmed, computers can do likewise, except that they control electromechanical rather than biological equipment. Beyond these functional similarities, computers and brains have virtually nothing in common.”
“I know he was definitely beaten by her. I saw it many times. But we had a different way of dealing with her. He'd let her have more and more booze until she passed out.”
“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”
“I had this grand idea that Elvira's kind of the Santa Claus of Halloween - at the malls, you'd have an Elvira there. Girls would dress as Elvira just like guys dress as Santa Claus, and it's not the real thing, but they'll pose for pictures, sign autographs. Of course, I couldn't go around to every mall, so we'd have to get more Elviras.”
“You should never try to be better than someone else, you should always be learning from others. But you should never cease trying to be the best you could be because that's under your control and the other isn't.”
“When I heard Grateful Dead music, I knew that it was the most powerful force on the planet.”

Source : "Q&A: The Dead’s Mickey Hart". Interview with William Goodman, www.spin.com. April 30, 2009.

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