Clive Thompson Quotes
If you, or any public-spirited programmer, wanted to figure out what the software on your machine is really doing, tough luck. It's illegal to reverse engineer the source code of commercial software to find out how it works.
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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.
Ed Bradley
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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.
Halle Berry
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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
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Basically, I want that relationship where we have that love. I love her so much, and she loves me so much that it's just - you want that relationship where you look into the girl's eyes, and you know that she's everything you've ever wanted. When I find that, I'm going to get it!
J. J. Watt
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I feel lucky every day. But I can also trace that luck back to decisions I have made. Frequently, those decisions have been to pay my own way to somewhere I want to be and something I want to do.
Rachel Sklar
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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.
Carl Sandburg
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There's a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans.
J. Maarten Troost
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I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.
Ines de La Fressange
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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.
Malcolm Wilson
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I'm a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.
Gautam Adani
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Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!
Felix Bloch
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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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You have to identify your shot and be 'Push your luck' ready for it.
D. B. Sweeney
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My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.
Dan Jenkins
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Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.
Fergus Henderson
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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
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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
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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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I was in Girls' Generation because of luck, and fortunately, Girls' Generation received a lot of love. I would want to help my daughter walk a different career path.
Jessica Jung
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Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.
Douglas Jerrold
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What is luck but something made to run out.
Esi Edugyan
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I spent a whole year when I was injured just trying to get my arm back to the point where I could hit a tennis ball for more than 30 minutes a day. I'd hit for 15 minutes and it would feel as if my arm was going to fall off.
Maria Sharapova
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Taciturnitas stulto homini pro sapientia est.
Publilius Syrus
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If you, or any public-spirited programmer, wanted to figure out what the software on your machine is really doing, tough luck. It's illegal to reverse engineer the source code of commercial software to find out how it works.
Clive Thompson