Fortune Quotes
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Hopefully, I will emerge more shining. If I have that good fortune, if I am blessed in that way - and I do feel I am in the middle of the blessing - then I have faith my service will be greater.
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.
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There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's The Simpsons, and then there's everything else.
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Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius.
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The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in.
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By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.
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A salesman called on my wife the other day and tried to sell her a freezer. You'll save a fortune on your food bills, he promised. I can't tell you how much you'll save. It'll be tremendous. Said my wife: I'm sure you're right, but we're already saving a fortune with our new car by not taking the bus. We're saving a fortune with our new washing machine by not sending out the laundry. We're saving a fortune with our new dishwasher by giving up the maid. The plain truth is that right now we just can't afford to save any more!
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Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.
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I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.
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And whichever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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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 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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It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman.
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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.
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Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.
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The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.
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It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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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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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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If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.
