Amadeo Giannini Quotes
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I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.
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If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills.
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Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
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Virtue has her heroes tooAs well as Fame and Fortune.
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I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.
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A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
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I still follow Chelsea's fortunes.
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I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
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Nothing of fame or fortune can compensate for the spiritual suffering that one possessing such qualities has to endure.
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The result was magnificent . . . I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife.
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Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.
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If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.
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I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
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Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
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Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.
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One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.
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I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation.
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He hugged her again, before she could put some distance between them. Then the most sneaky wolf in the den lowered his voice and whispered, “But you’ve got an advantage, sweetheart. You’re already in his head. And you know how to mess with it.
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I got a job as a human rights and refugees officer, working on youth-based projects. But I realized all the kids I was working with were far more into 'The Daily Show' than the policy briefings.
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No man actually owns a fortune. It owns him.
