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Success is a result of hard work, persistence, and a little bit of luck.
Author:
Samantha Smith
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Success is simply a matter of luck - ask any failure
Author:
Earl Wilson
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Luck is a funny thing - the harder I work, the luckier I get.
Author:
Samuel Goldwyn
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You make your own luck by working hard towards your goals, not crossing your fingers and relying on fate.
Author:
Caroline Johnson
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Success is where preparation and opportunity meet, but sometimes a little luck doesn't hurt either.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
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I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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Success is the result of never-ending perseverance and a dash of good luck.
Author:
Sophia Aquino
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Success is the combined result of hard work, determination, and a little luck sprinkled on top
Author:
Helen Jones
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The hard work puts you where the good luck can find you.
Author:
Brad Paisley
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The only way to achieve greatness is through perseverance, hard work, and a touch of luck
Author:
Sarah Johnson
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Success is the result of hard work, determination, and a touch of luck
Author:
Sophia Johnson
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The path to success is paved with determination, discipline, and a sprinkle of luck.
Author:
Sarah Johnson
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Every opportunity has its own luck, be prepared to make the most of them.
Author:
Michelle Obama
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Success comes from hard work, dedication, and a sprinkle of luck.
Author:
John Doe
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Luck is when opportunity meets preparation.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
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Success is the result of hard work, determination, and a dash of luck.
Author:
Alex Rodriguez
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The only way to achieve greatness is through perseverance, dedication, and a sprinkle of luck.
Author:
Emma Watson
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The only way to achieve success is through determination, perseverance, and a little bit of luck.
Author:
Emily Smith
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Hope is like the sun, which throws its ever-lasting wrath upon its luckiest victims.
Author:
Emily Dickinson
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Success is the result of hard work, perseverance, and a little bit of luck.
Author:
Jennifer Smith
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Success is a result of hard work, determination, and a sprinkle of luck.
Author:
Jennifer Humphries
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Success is the intersection of luck and preparation.
Author:
Samantha Wallace
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Success is the harmony between hard work and a dash of luck.
Author:
Sophia Kim
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Success is the sum of hard work, determination, and a sprinkle of luck.
Author:
Alexandria Taylor
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Success is where preparation and opportunity meet, creating a magnificent mix of hard work and luck.
Author:
Sofia Johnson
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Fortune favors the bold, but luck favors the prepared.
Author:
Sylvia Chang
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Success is fueled by ambition, perseverance, and a dash of luck.
Author:
Mia Rodriguez
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The universe has a way of handing you the opportunities you never knew you needed.
Author:
Julia Nguyen
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The path to success is paved with determination, perseverance, and a sprinkle of luck.
Author:
Sophia Rodriguez
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Success stems from resilience, not luck.
Author:
Sarah Chang
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The path to success is paved with determination, hard work, and a sprinkle of luck.
Author:
Jasmine Patel
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Luck is just the intersection of preparation and opportunity.
Author:
Amy Price
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Success is not achieved by luck alone, but by dedication, discipline, and a sprinkle of serendipity.
Author:
Sophia Rodriguez
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The path to success is paved with hard work, perseverance, and a sprinkle of luck.
Author:
Sarah Johnson
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The path to success is paved with determination, resilience, and a sprinkle of serendipity.
Author:
Emily Johnson
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Success can only be achieved through dedication, determination, and a little bit of luck
Author:
Samantha Jones
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Success is not about getting lucky, it's about making your own luck.
Author:
Sophia Ruiz
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The greatest accomplishments are achieved with persistence, resourcefulness, and a little bit of luck.
Author:
Ava Johnson
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Success is the product of dedication, persistence, and a little bit of luck.
Author:
Sophia Park
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Luck is a residue of design.
Author:
John Heywood
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Success is the result of perseverance, passion, and a little bit of luck.
Author:
Samantha Bryant
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Success is born from a combination of grit, talent, and a sprinkle of luck.
Author:
Sofia Alvarez
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Success is the result of hard work, determination, and a sprinkle of luck.
Author:
Michelle Rodriguez
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Success is a sum of persistence, determination, and a sprinkle of luck.
Author:
Samantha Anderson
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Success is the culmination of hard work, dedication, and a sprinkle of luck.
Author:
Stephanie Smith
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The path to success is often paved with determination, perseverance, and a sprinkle of luck.
Author:
Maya Patel
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Success is born out of resilience, not luck.
Author:
Cassandra Johnson
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Success is the product of hard work, perseverance, and a sprinkle of luck.
Author:
Samantha Johnson
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Success is the result of hard work, perseverance, and a sprinkle of luck.
Author:
Maya Lopez
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The road to success is paved with hard work, resilience, and a sprinkle of good luck.
Author:
Olivia Smith
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Become the architect of your own destiny, because success is built on ambition, perseverance, and a dash of luck.
Author:
Sofia Martinez
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The path to success is paved with hard work, determination, and a sprinkle of serendipity.
Author:
Sophia Nguyen
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Success is not linear; it's a sum of perseverance, adaptability, and a sprinkle of luck.
Author:
Sophia Wu
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Success is not predetermined; it's a result of hard work, determination, and a sprinkle of luck.
Author:
Samantha Young
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Luck is the meeting point of preparation and opportunity.
Author:
Samantha Grant
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Success is the result of persistence, determination, and a sprinkle of luck.
Author:
Jessica Chang
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Success is a mixture of determination, hard work, and a sprinkle of luck.
Author:
Sarah Johnson
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Success is not just about talent, it's also about persistence and a sprinkle of luck.
Author:
Sophia Rodriguez
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Success demands dedication, passion, and a sprinkle of luck.
Author:
Maya Singh
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Success is the product of focus, determination, and a sprinkle of luck.
Author:
Evelyn Martinez
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As long as there's hard work, perseverance, and a sprinkle of luck, anything is possible.
Author:
Sofia Chen
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The path to success is paved with determination, resilience, and a sprinkle of luck.
Author:
Samantha Peterson
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A wise man makes his own luck.
Author:
John Smith
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Success is the result of hard work, perseverance, and a bit of luck.
Author:
Samantha Adams
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Success is a combination of hard work, dedication, and a touch of luck.
Author:
Samantha Nguyen
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Success is a product of hard work, determination, and a sprinkle of luck.
Author:
Samantha Parker
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The road to success is paved with determination, perseverance, and a little bit of luck.
Author:
Ryan Smith
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Success is the result of hard work, determination, and a hint of luck.
Author:
Jessica Johnson
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Everything about it worked, and I don't mean just the movie, but in our experience, we realized there's also a component of luck involved in this business. We had absolutely the most competent people in the studio working on the release and ad campaign.
Author:
David Zucker
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I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.
Author:
Slavoj Zizek
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Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.
Author:
Timothy Zahn
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For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.
Author:
Timothy Zahn
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Good luck is a residue of preparation.
Author:
Jack Youngblood
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I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
Author:
Steven Wright
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Projects like this don't come along very often and I feel amazingly luck to be a part of it.
Author:
Sam Wood
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Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving.
Author:
Steve Winwood
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I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
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Everyone has to find their own way, it's just that I don't want to go that way myself. If a band likes being on a major and feels happy there, good luck to them.
Author:
Malcolm Wilson
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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Author:
Earl Wilson
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Luck is believing you're lucky.
Author:
Tennessee Williams
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Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.
Author:
Serena Williams
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
Author:
E. White
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
Author:
E. White
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'Press Your Luck' was probably the most exciting because of the unpredictability of the game and how I won on one of the three days on the very last spin against all odds. It was one of those great unpredictable game show moments.
Author:
Randy West
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Also at the top of the list was my three day appearance on 'Press Your Luck'. In addition to the intense competition of each of those games, it slowly started to dawn on me in the minutes between tapings that I was winning some serious money.
Author:
Randy West
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
Author:
Orson Welles
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Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.
Author:
Frank Wedekind
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I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.
Author:
Steve Waugh
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Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
Author:
Denzel Washington
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I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.
Author:
Denzel Washington
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My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.
Author:
Mark Warner
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The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.
Author:
Derek Walcott
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People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
Author:
Anne Tyler
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Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.
Author:
Pierre Trudeau
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I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Author:
Brian Tracy
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It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.
Author:
Clyde Tombaugh
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There are a lot better musicians than me out there that just haven't had the luck to fall into everything like I have.
Author:
Glenn Tipton
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I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.
Author:
Gene Tierney
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You can't rely on luck. I've had some stages in my career where I've said we're going to wing it, and we've always ended up in trouble.
Author:
George Thorogood
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Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting.
Author:
Mike Thompson
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I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.
Author:
Dave Thomas
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Good luck needs no explanation.
Author:
Shirley Temple
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A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.
Author:
Amber Tamblyn
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Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.
Author:
Don Sutton
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I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.
Author:
Patrick Stewart
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The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
Author:
Gertrude Stein
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Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
Author:
Edmund Stedman
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When it comes to luck, you make your own.
Author:
Bruce Springsteen
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Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.
Author:
Tris Speaker
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People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.
Author:
Frank Sinatra
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Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
Author:
Don Shula
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Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.
Author:
Allan Sherman
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
Author:
Barbara Sher
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I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.
Author:
Robert Sheckley
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There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
Author:
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.
Author:
George Sanders
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I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
Author:
Carl Sandburg
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If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.
Author:
Fred Saberhagen
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Author:
Darrell Royal
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I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
Author:
Franklin Roosevelt
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No one has as much luck around the greens as one who practices a lot.
Author:
Chi Rodriguez
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The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Author:
Tony Robbins
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Luck is the residue of design.
Author:
Branch Rickey
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Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.
Author:
Alain Resnais
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Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.
Author:
Jerry Reed
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I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.
Author:
Dennis Quaid
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If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day.
Author:
Philip Pullman
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The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Author:
Channing Pollock
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Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!
Author:
Luigi Pirandello
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So, it takes a lot of chance and luck. I mean I was lucky enough to get in the program where people with the same skills never made it to the program. So keep trying.
Author:
Philippe Perrin
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I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck.
Author:
Ron Perlman
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Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.
Author:
James Penney
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You can't just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.
Author:
Estelle Parsons
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I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better.
Author:
Norman Parkinson
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Sheer luck. I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones.
Author:
Suzy Parker
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Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
Author:
Ovid
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With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they'd bust it to Corporal!
Author:
Robert Orben
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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
Author:
Joyce Oates
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Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.
Author:
Louis Nizer
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I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.
Author:
Nelly
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Good night, and good luck.
Author:
Edward Murrow
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I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
Author:
Patrick Murray
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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Author:
Iris Murdoch
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It wasn't like I felt I was on a wave. It was just so easy. It is only afterwards that I thought I really had a bit of good luck going on there with Yazoo.
Author:
Alison Moyet
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We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
Author:
Christopher Morley
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Well, it is certainly not by choice at this time you don't see or hear about me. This business is very unpredictable. A lot of it is luck and being in the right place at the right time.
Author:
Erin Moran
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But I got drafted out of high school, and my mother wasn't having it. She was like, you're not about to think that you can just play ball, because if you get hurt, you're going to be out of luck.
Author:
Shemar Moore
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I can't speak for them, of course, but I believe that most economists would accept the view that, while you sometimes can make a score by sheer luck, you can't do it constantly, unless you're willing to put the resources in.
Author:
Merton Miller
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I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on.
Author:
Angela Merkel
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I have great luck. I'm used to people dying and going away. Not used to it exactly - but I expect it. Like, whenever people go off on a trip, I save their phone messages because I think they might die.
Author:
Rose McGowan
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The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?
Author:
David McCullough
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The luck will alter and the star will rise.
Author:
John Masefield
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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
Author:
Orison Marden
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
Author:
Patrick MacGill
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Frankly - and believe me, I say this without any pretense - when I see the road I've taken, I have to say that thanks to good luck, because without good luck one can do nothing, I've come out pretty well.
Author:
James MacArthur
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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
Author:
Douglas MacArthur
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In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.
Author:
Loretta Lynn
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Good luck has its storms.
Author:
George Lucas
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Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
Author:
James Lowell
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Luck, be a lady tonight.
Author:
Frank Loesser
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Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
Author:
Titus Livius
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It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.
Author:
Richard Linklater
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I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way.
Author:
Jonathan Lethem
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With a little bit of luck, you'll never work!
Author:
Alan Lerner
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I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck.
Author:
Joshua Leonard
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So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.
Author:
Chris LeDoux
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I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Author:
Stephen Leacock
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I had the luck of having an obedient body.
Author:
Burt Lancaster
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I got a call this morning, and it was from Nancy Kerrigan, wishing me luck. She wished me luck and sent me all her good wishes.
Author:
Michelle Kwan
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Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
Author:
Charles Kuralt
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Yes, I've had some pretty good luck finding wonderful talent.
Author:
Gene Krupa
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Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
Author:
Ray Kroc
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Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.
Author:
Michael Korda
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Give luck a chance to happen.
Author:
Tom Kite
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She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity.
Author:
Lincoln Kirstein
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Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
Author:
Larry King
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I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!
Author:
George Kennedy
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Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
Author:
Garrison Keillor
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A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.
Author:
Guy Kawasaki
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The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.
Author:
Alain Juppe
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My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.
Author:
James Johnson
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Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.
Author:
Douglas Jerrold
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No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.
Author:
John Jakes
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I've always thought of myself as being extremely lucky. The idea is to keep that luck going. Headlining the Stanley was a real kick. I think it's the type of thing I could get used to.
Author:
Donnie Iris
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In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.
Author:
Jacky Ickx
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People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.
Author:
William Hurt
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.
Author:
Michelle Hunziker
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My teeth have never been touched. Why did I tell you that? Knock on wood. I've got a few scars over the eyes, a couple on the chin, a few on the beak and one across the cheek. But my luck is running out.
Author:
Brett Hull
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I wear my Peggy Fleming T-shirt when I go to sleep every night before I compete, and for the past four years, it's brought me incredible good luck.
Author:
Sarah Hughes
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How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?
Author:
William Howells
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When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
Author:
Edgar Howe
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Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky.
Author:
Anthony Hopkins
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Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.
Author:
Tom Holt
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A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
Author:
Eric Hoffer
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Luck is an art.
Author:
George Hill
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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
Author:
Herodotus
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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
Author:
Ernest Hemingway
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Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
Author:
Joseph Heller
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Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.
Author:
Olivia Havilland
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The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
Author:
Bret Harte
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When you look at Darling and the Oscars, it has to be luck. It was a black and white film and it was the last time that there was a black and white Oscar.
Author:
Julie Harris
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Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.
Author:
Joel Harris
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Some folk want their luck buttered.
Author:
Thomas Hardy
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Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.
Author:
Virginia Graham
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
Author:
Baltasar Gracian
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
Author:
Baltasar Gracian
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The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.
Author:
Bob Goodlatte
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I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
Author:
Samuel Goldwyn
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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
Author:
Harry Golden
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I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
Author:
Arthur Golden
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You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.
Author:
Whoopi Goldberg
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Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.
Author:
Whoopi Goldberg
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Luck has had a great deal to do with my career.
Author:
John Glover
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Hopefully it'll give us a bit of luck on the night, but I'm not really a superstitious person.
Author:
Steven Gerrard
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I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.
Author:
Haile Gebrselassie
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A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
Author:
James Garfield
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Care and diligence bring luck.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.
Author:
David Friedman
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Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.
Author:
A. Foyt
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
Author:
E. Forster
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What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
Author:
Harrison Ford
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
Author:
B. Forbes
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In short, Luck's always to blame.
Author:
Jean Fontaine
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Luck's always to blame.
Author:
Jean Fontaine
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
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F. Fitzgerald
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I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.
Author:
Edmond Fischer
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Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.
Author:
William Feather
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Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.
Author:
Kevin Eubanks
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The greatest luck that I've had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full advantage of.
Author:
John Engler
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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.
Author:
Patty Duke
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Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
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Emily Dickinson
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I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.
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Neil Diamond
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Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
Author:
John Dewey
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You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.
Author:
Jimmy Dean
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There were people I know that got upset that I kiss people. I kiss them for luck and love, that's all. That's what my mother did to me.
Author:
Richard Dawson
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What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
Author:
Robertson Davies
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The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
Author:
Rodney Dangerfield
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I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
Author:
Rodney Dangerfield
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I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.
Author:
Bill Cosby
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Art depends on luck and talent.
Author:
Francis Coppola
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For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.
Author:
Paula Cole
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
Author:
Jean Cocteau
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Luck relies on chance, labor on character.
Author:
Richard Cobden
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It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.
Author:
Frank Clark
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It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
Author:
Winston Churchill
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What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
Author:
Victor Cherbuliez
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You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.
Author:
Barbara Bush
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You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
Author:
Barbara Bush
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If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.
Author:
Luis Bunuel
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There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.
Author:
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.
Author:
Jimmy Buffett
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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
Author:
Giordano Bruno
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Luck marches with those who give their very best.
Author:
H. Brown, Jr.
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Serendipity, when dated and delicately encoded, reveals cognitive melodies that force concoct stirrings amidst routine's unearthed hustle.
Author:
Widget Temporary
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Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.
Author:
Pat Brown
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I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.
Author:
J. Brown
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To franchise surprise within the estuary of intention is to summon innovation at the intersection of design and chance.
Author:
Jenna Keyes
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If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it's not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you're truly blessed. I think that's where we are now.
Author:
Edie Brickell
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Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.
Author:
Bill Brandt
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There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.
Author:
Lakhdar Brahimi
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And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.
Author:
Ed Bradley
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Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.
Author:
Ed Bradley
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I've had a little bad, bad media luck the new year. Well, apparently I'm dating Bill Clinton, which makes me nervous. I didn't know, though.
Author:
Julie Bowen
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I'm amazed that things have panned out the way they have. I always say I'm so lucky, though my mum always says, "You make your own luck."
Author:
Orlando Bloom
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We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.
Author:
Elizabeth Bibesco
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I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.
Author:
Halle Berry
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The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.
Author:
Hector Berlioz
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I still have horrible luck with girls.
Author:
Jonathan Bennett
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Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.
Author:
Richie Benaud
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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
Author:
Charles Baudelaire
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One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance.
Author:
John Barrow
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This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.
Author:
Amelia Barr
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Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
Author:
Lucille Ball
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Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.
Author:
Josephine Baker
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But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
Author:
Ibrahim Babangida
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A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity.
Author:
Emanuel Ax
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I pick good women, but I haven't had any luck with my men.
Author:
Elizabeth Arden
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I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.
Author:
Al Alvarez
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
Author:
Aaron Allston
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My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.
Author:
Woody Allen
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It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.
Author:
James Agee
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The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.
Author:
Victoria Abril
