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(Instrumental music playing throughout video) Dismissed from drama school with a note that
read: Wasting her time. She is too shy to put her best foot forward.
Turned down by the Decca recording company who said, we don’t like their 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. A 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 fiancee died. He failed in business twice.
He had a nervous breakdown, and he was defeated in eight elections.
If you have never failed, you have never lived. (Instrumental Music playing)