I have never seen a role like this of an Arab-American that's seen in such a positive light -- a really well-rounded character with a sense of humor, a professional life, a family life. Not a goodie-goodie -- a person who has his flaws and his shortcomings -- but a real character, not a stereotype.
Tony Shalhoub
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The list of failures and shortcomings is long.
Alexander Torshin
One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.
Lars Ulrich
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
Margaret Halsey
The tragedy in Louisiana and Mississippi has laid bare severe shortcomings in our ability to respond to catastrophe.
Peter Sullivan
There is no question we learned from their shortcomings, there is no doubt that anyone in the community could see those schools had problems, some were obvious, some were lingering.
John Bliss
Instead of blaming officials for their teams' deficiencies and shortcomings, individuals need to keep their eyes on the prize and focus on the game and their teams responsibility and failures and stop blaming the refs.
Lamell Mcmorris
A careful study of the court order reveals that to hide their own shortcomings and dereliction in duties, the MCD officials have perhaps not placed actual facts in the court and a weak case was fought.
Praveen Khandelwal
History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
Vladimir Putin
I fear that this bill, without the sufficient resources, will merely highlight our shortcomings. I fear it will not provide the assistance, both financial and technical, that schools will need to meet the goals of having every student meet their full academic potential.
Jim Jeffords
The situational hitting was the key. We moved runners really well tonight. We're becoming a little more aware of our shortcomings and identifying the situations where we can drive in runs without getting hits. Those are the ones you have to capitalize on.
Gregg Zaun
The skating public has embraced her potential and always forgiven her on-ice shortcomings. In large part this has to do with the grace she has shown when not winning.
Brandon Steiner
The Committee's review of a series of intelligence shortcomings, to include intelligence prior to 9/11 and the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, clearly reveal how vital a diverse intelligence workforce is to our national security.
Jane Harman
To be able to laugh at one's own shortcomings is positive if it helps to put things into perspective. It reminds us that everyone has the same issues, and helps women feel better about themselves. If it's laughing at the fact that everyone's cellulite looks worse in the mirrors in the changing rooms, that's good, because everyone's had that; you don't feel alone.
Linda Papadopoulos
When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.
Aaron Mcgruder
There's no comparison. One of the tenets of football, its essence, is triumphing over adversity. That can be your opponent, your shortcomings or it can be the weather.
Steve Sabol
The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.
John Adair
What's really reprehensible is that friends of the oil industry in Congress are using ... a disaster, which essentially pointed up our shortcomings in protecting public health and safety, to repeal environmental rules that are designed to protect public health and safety.
Dave Hamilton
There are always going to be those who, rather than draw attention to their candidate's shortcomings, prefer to tear down our quality party leaders and Twinkle is a quality person. We definitely need her as our Republican Party chairman. She's a strong leader and a fair leader and that's what we need.
Brenda Horn
Since brain activation is arguably less susceptible to being controlled by an individual, our research will hopefully eliminate the shortcomings of the conventional polygraph test and produce a new method of objective lie detection that can be used reliably in a courtroom or other setting.
Feroze B. Mohamed
I don't think it was the pressure of the contract or anything else. I really think it was the physical shortcomings he had to deal with because of the injuries, and that kind of slowed him down in the first half.
Al Macneil
It is another positive sign that the administration is willing to be honest and straightforward about the shortcomings of its allies in the Arab world, including Saudi Arabia.
Tom Malinowski
Knowing better than anyone my own shortcomings, I undertake this task with humility and ask you all, as Canadians, to help me.
Adrienne Clarkson
I accept responsibility for the mistakes that we made. No one is more disappointed with our shortcomings than I. Those mistakes, however, were mistakes of process, not intent.
Don Fowler
We know from previous research that shopping cart abandonment is fairly high in Canada with about one in two shoppers reporting that they did not finalize at least one online purchase in the past three months. Shipping costs, customer service shortcomings and privacy and security concerns are holding consumers back from doing more of their shopping online.
Richard Jenkins
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
Laurence J. Peter
A lot of the guys came in with a focus on 2006 and learn from last year's downfalls and shortcomings. Their attitude and work ethic is great.
Paul Melvin
A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
Irvin S. Cobb
I will have direct talks with the LTTE and take steps to correct the shortcomings in the ceasefire agreement.
Mahinda Rajapakse
The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.
Eric Hoffer
No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors.
Tom Thompson
We long ago took full responsibility for the shortcomings in our Philadelphia operations.
Bill Barbour
FEMA has lost its focus, and Floridians know first-hand of the agency's shortcomings, ... Natural disaster preparedness and response programs have become trapped in a homeland security bureaucracy.
Alcee Hastings
Our experience from Iraq, for example, showed substantial intelligence shortcomings. You'd have to assume we too suffer from enormous intelligence shortcoming vis a vis Iran. That would be a problem.
Richard Russell
Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
Emily Post
They understand that there's some shortcomings. It says they're addressing them.
Erich Merkle
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