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Anybody who is not pulling his weight is probably pushing his luck.

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• I love Katy Perry and Lady GaGa. I think GaGa's pushing the envelope every day and I really like that.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Day
  • Like
  • Pushing

• I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Important
  • Person
  • Luck

• I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Luck
  • Chicago
  • Try

• Tears at times have the weight of speech.

  

  Ovid
  • Tears
  • Speech
  • Weight

• My biggest luck was the Terry McMillan era, because what happened after the phenomenon of 'Waiting to Exhale' is that publishing woke up. They said, 'Wow. Black people do read.'

  

  Tananarive Due
  • People
  • Up
  • Black

• Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

  

  Ovid
  • Chance
  • Luck
  • Fish

• My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Luck

• 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.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Good
  • Music
  • Believe

• My weight has always been a struggle for me.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Me
  • Always
  • Struggle

• First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Successful
  • Christmas
  • Luck

• Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life - and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it!

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera. I thought, 'Hey, this will be a really fun story to tell my grandkids one day, that I auditioned for a soap!'

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Business
  • Fun
  • Day

• Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

  

  Larry King
  • Success
  • Luck
  • Succeeded

• Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn't be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn't a life plan.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Life
  • Nice
  • Myself

• It's a privilege to be able to be involved with people as talented as the people I've had the luck to work with, and it's just been a great experience for me, and I'm glad that so many of the films I've had the luck to do were films that could be enjoyed by families together.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• The modern world is a meritocracy where you earn your own luck, old school ties count for nothing, and inherited privilege can even lose a guy a clear parliamentary majority.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • World
  • School
  • Guy

• I'm trying to focus on original material. That is what I've had my luck with.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Trying
  • Focus
  • Luck

• Good luck is a residue of preparation.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Good
  • Luck
  • Preparation

• I had spent my entire career not wanting to talk about weight, not wanting to deal with it, wanting to be an actor first.

  

  Sara Rue
  • Actors
  • Careers
  • Weight

• I personally pledge myself to openly counsel, aid, and abet youth, both black and white, to quarantine any Jim Crow conscription system.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Black
  • Myself
  • Black-and-white

• When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Life
  • God
  • Hope

• I see courage everywhere I go in Africa. Fearless human rights activists in Darfur. Women peace advocates in eastern Congo. Former child soldiers in Northern Uganda who now are helping other former child soldiers return to civilian life.

  

  John Prendergast
  • Life
  • Women
  • Peace

• I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of breaks, ever, on your own.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Single

• Anybody who is not pulling his weight is probably pushing his luck.

  

  Adi Da
  • Luck
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  • Pushing