Luck Quotes
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The rush to California, for instance, and the attitude, not merely of merchants, but of philosophers and prophets, so called, in relation to it, reflect the greatest disgrace on mankind. That so many are ready to live by luck, and so get the means of commanding the labor of others less lucky, without contributing any value to society!
Henry David Thoreau
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I would like to say I've achieved goals, but really, modeling is all luck. You're not really achieving anything. The least hardworking person with a special face can be huge and have a whole world of success.
Brooklyn Decker
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A lot of people think that success is luck and being in the right place at the right time. But I think if you’re willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create an awful lot of your own luck.
Nolan Bushnell
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Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.
Ba Jin
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In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.
Loretta Lynn
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No matter how good you are, there's a lot of luck involved.
Reggie Miller
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Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the Galapagos Islands, and while I was there, I saw a particular problem in behavioral biology that I wanted to solve and, in the process, made myself into a bird ecologist.
David J. Anderson
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When I was doing 'A Raisin in the Sun' with Sean Combs, we began in bed, and he would give me 10 kisses and an 11th for luck before the play began.
Audra McDonald
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It was in the nature of truly effective good-luck pieces that human beings never really owned them.
Kurt Vonnegut
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I hope Seth Rollins becomes the safest, best wrestler in the world. And I wish him all the luck in the world.
Bret Hart
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People need to understand; I may have been very innocent. Didn't understand the devil. Didn't understand any of that. You can only push a child so far. You have laws; number one. And number two; I had been doing this so long, I could say now that I don't want to do something. But after a certain while, they knew when they had pushed their luck with me, and that it was time to, you know, maybe back off.
Linda Blair
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Art depends on luck and talent.
Francis Ford Coppola
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Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.
Virginia Woolf
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We can't afford to stand pat while the world races by. The United States of America did not become the most prosperous nation on Earth by sheer luck or happenstance. We got here because each time a generation of Americans has faced a changing world, we have changed with it. We have not feared our future; we have shaped it.
Barack Obama
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This is a very difficult time. That it was tough after the experience Wednesday is understandable. We were missing a little luck, but that's fitting these days.
Oliver Kahn
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I had the luck of having an obedient body.
Burt Lancaster
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One time, I gave Chris Martin a My Little Pony for good luck. He said, 'Oh, you should keep it,' but I was like, 'You guys probably need it a lot more than I do.' I said that to Coldplay!
Charli XCX
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What's happened in my career is probably fate and good luck.
Pruitt Taylor Vince
