George Roy Hill Quotes
People Watch Luck Go by Them and They're Blind - They Never Reach out and Grab It.
George Roy Hill
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Some days, I'll tell you that everything in life was meant to be and that there is an order to the universe. Other days, I'm convinced it's all a combination of luck and opportunity.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.
Federica Montseny
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Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.
Omar Dorsey
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I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.
Danica McKellar
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Immanuel Kant
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I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.
Haile Gebrselassie
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I know I've been lucky. But it's what you do with that luck afterwards that really defines whether you stick around.
Zac Efron
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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
Pasquier Quesnel
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The message of Jesus is summed up partly in the Sermon on the Mount, and partly when he begins his ministry and quotes the passage from Isaiah: 'I have come to set free the prisoners and restore sight to the blind.' And certainly, his mission is also to bring hope. It was to heal people, to befriend the outcast.
Dan Wakefield
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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
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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
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I grew up in this poor place, with very limited circumstances, at about 16 years of age was sent by my family to work, and instead of remaining in the position into which I was sent, I somehow worked my way out of it without any help from anyone, just luck.
Jamaica Kincaid
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Your luck goes up and down like swings and roundabouts.
James Hunt
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On just a personal level, since I was little, I've loved fairytales, especially this one, because it is about what goes into making a beast a beast. Do you start as a beast? Do you turn into a beast because of the way that people treat you? I think it's something that is really universal and hit a chord with me when I was little, and so, hopefully we can explore some of that.
Brian Wayne Peterson
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Here, though, there is nothing. Nothing at all. The sky seems empty even when I am looking at the moon and stars.
Edwidge Danticat
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People Watch Luck Go by Them and They're Blind - They Never Reach out and Grab It.
George Roy Hill
