Luck Quotes
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This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.
William Shakespeare
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What is luck but something made to run out.
Esi Edugyan
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Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
Ray Kroc
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I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell.
Peter Ackroyd
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People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
Anne Tyler
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This is not our job, but we always follow the actions of our European partners closely and we wish them luck.
Vladimir Putin
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I've met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work. And it was just my luck that all of them happened to be men I was working for at the time.
Bill Gold
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For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.
Dolly Parton
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You can be born into privilege, or you can not be born into privilege. You can be born into the opposite extreme and into poverty. I think from there on, though, you really do have to make your luck.
Ivanka Trump
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I think it is astounding that people could argue for "you just must trust someone else to fix it" instead of "you could fix it yourself, or hire someone to fix it." There is a contractor base out there that can solve these problems as well as or better than the major vendors could. But I think the major vendors are still having more luck at getting the ear of the press.
Theo de Raadt
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As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out.
Tom Hanks
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There is an old saying, The harder you try the luckier you get. I kind of like that definition of luck.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
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It's hard to have any kind of luck in this business.
Leighton Meester
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Look, I haven't had hardly any bad luck. I never look at it that way.
Rick Majerus
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Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who do not depend on it.
George S. Clason
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For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
Ernest Hemingway
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Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.
George Eliot
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I started playing chess when I was about 4 or 5 years old. It is very good for children to learn to play chess, because it helps them to develop their mental abilities. It also helps to consolidate a person's character, because as it happens both in life and in a chess game we have to make decisions constantly. In chess there is no luck and no excuses: everything is in your hands.
Vladimir Kramnik
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You know, in life there are only three or four fundamental decisions to make. The rest is just luck.
Raymond Aubrac
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I think filmmaking is largely about preparation and taste and luck. If you have all of those three things, I think you will find you can work somehow.
David Slade
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Believing there's no such thing as luck is very unlucky. Like, the worst. Beyond stealing someone's lucky four-leaf clover.
Caprice Crane
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When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!?
Ray Bradbury
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I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.
Steve Waugh
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Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising.
Joseph Heller