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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

~Benjamin Britten

Topics: Beautiful Beauty Cruel Disappointment Everlasting Freedom Know Loneliness Love Monotony Music Nature Pain Should Strength You

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America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: America Books Build Create Disappointment Great Malls Me Other Said Shopping Societies

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I often feel I'm a disappointment to people because they expect me to be the guy in the books. When I sit next to someone at a dinner party I can see they expect me to be quick and witty, and I'm not at all.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Because Books Dinner Dinner Party Disappointment Expect Feel Guy Me Next Often Party People Quick See Sit Someone Witty I Can

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I typically don't get into predicting the success of my projects. I've been involved with a lot of projects that I thought should have really gained notoriety and furthered my career, only to be met with the cold grasp of disappointment. So I typically stay away from predicting how a film will do.

~Bokeem Woodbine

Topics: Away Been Career Cold Disappointment Film Gained Get Grasp How Involved Lot Met Notoriety Only Predicting Projects Really Should Stay Success Thought Will

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I don't want to be a figure of disappointment.

~Boy George

Topics: Disappointment Figure Want

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Nothing to me is unexpected. No disappointment is unexpected - whether it's movies or people or relationships. I'm always ready for the punch directly between the eyes. So I get hurt, but I never get hurt. Happens all the time.

~Brian Grazer

Topics: Always Between Directly Disappointment Eyes Get Happens Hurt Me Movies Never Nothing People Punch Ready Relationships Time Unexpected Whether

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You have perspective when little people come into your life. You take the best things you have and let them overshadow your disappointment.

~Brian O'Driscoll

Topics: Best Come Disappointment Life Little Little People People Perspective Take Them Things You Your

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Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us.

~Bruno Bettelheim

Topics: Annoyance Children Disappointment Discouragement Feel Love Only Our Our Love Same Sometimes True Us

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While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

~Bryant H. Mcgill

Topics: Also Both Disappointment Failure Father Happiness Hope Important Keeper Must People Progress Promise Remember See While You Your

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My first biography written in '73 was not 'Journey To The Moon.' It was 'Return To Earth.' Because for me, that was the more difficult task - disappointment.

~Buzz Aldrin

Topics: Because Biography Difficult Difficult Task Disappointment Earth First Journey Me Moon More Return Task To The Moon Written

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