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Tag Name "Luck" (1202)

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The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree
Anchee Min
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I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.
Tom Petty
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I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I see one of those sly, toothless, beaten-down souls on TV holding a winning ticket, I think, Go, team.
Amy Bloom
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If you ask people, as I often do, how they make decisions, 'lucky' people will talk about tuning in to information and instincts, while 'unlucky' people often mention pushing away the uncomfortable feeling they were headed for trouble.
Martha Beck
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Don't act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them, but you meandered out by a stroke of luck.
Michael Bassey
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A rabbit's foot may bring good luck to you, but it brought none to the rabbit.
Ambrose Bierce
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce
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A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next
Amber Tamblyn
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Being consistent is way less interesting than being yourself. And if you're not interesting? Good luck with your Big Consistency Project.
Merlin Mann
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The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the same for hitters - someone who hits .300 looks back on the guy who batted .295 and says 'tough luck buddy.
Warren Spahn
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A slightly modified version of the Serenity Prayer: Lord, grant me the serenity to ignore the assholes I cannot avoid The luck to avoid the ones I can And the self-awareness not to be one myself
Kelly Williams Brown
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Don't pray for the rain to stop pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.
Wendell Berry
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If you have nothing good to say about anyone, come and sit with me.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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The free expression of resentment against one's parents represents a great opportunity. It provides access to one's true self, reactivates numbed feelings, opens the way for mourning and - with luck - reconciliation.
Alice Miller
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The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape
Alice James
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He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.
Alice Hoffman
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The proverb says, Born lucky, always lucky, and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.
Mark Twain
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Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.
Wesley Morris
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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.
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.
Whoopi Goldberg
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It is best never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps.
Alfred Polgar
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And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.
James Cameron
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Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.
Alfred Hitchcock
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