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  • >> [background music] Dismissed from drama school with a note

  • that read wasting your time.

  • She's too shy to put her best foot forward.

  • Turned down by the Decca recording company

  • who said we don't like the sound

  • and guitar music is on the way out.

  • A failed soldier, farmer and real estate agent,

  • at 38 years old he went to work for his father as a handyman.

  • Cut from the high school basketball team, he went home,

  • locked himself in his room and cried.

  • Teacher told him he was too stupid to learn anything

  • and he should go into a field where he might succeed by virtue

  • of his pleasant personality.

  • Fired from a newspaper because he lacked imagination

  • and had no original ideas.

  • His fiance died.

  • He failed in business twice.

  • He had a nervous breakdown

  • and he was defeated in eight elections.

  • If you've never failed, you've never lived.

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