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• I've had bad luck with all my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't. The third gave me more children!

  Donald Trump

  Children, Wife, Luck

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• The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.

  Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

  Luck, Pieces, Born

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• I've had so much good luck happen to me that I can't handle bad luck.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Good Luck, Handle, Happens

  Source: www.levity.com

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• There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Fighting, Dry Up

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.201, Vintage

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• The whites have always had the say in America. White people made Jesus white, angels white, the Last Supper white. If I threaten you, I'm blackmailing you. A black cat is bad luck. If you're put out of a club, you're blackballed. Angel's-food cake is white; devil's-food cake is black. Good guys in cowboy movies wear white hats. The bad guys always wore black hats.

  Muhammad Ali

  Jesus, Cat, Angel

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• Las Vegas is a society of armed masturbators/gambling is the kicker here/sex is extra/weird trip for high rollers ... house-whores for winners, hand jobs for the bad luck crowd.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Jobs, Sex, Las Vegas

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.41, Vintage

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• A physicist looks for causes; that does not necessarily imply that there are causes everywhere. A man may look for gold without assuming that there is gold everywhere; if he finds gold, well and good, if he doesn't he's had bad luck. The same is true when the physicists look for causes.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Luck, Gold

  Bertrand Russell (1986). “Bertrand Russell on God and Religion”

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• For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Luck, Misfortunes

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.201, Vintage

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• There's no bad luck, There's just the luck you've found.

  Lyle Lovett

  Luck, Found

  "Song: 'You Were Always There'". 2003.

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• The power of your thoughts can influence how events turn out. I'm a positive person - when bad things happen, I can see the silver lining. As a result I think I am very lucky, even though I probably have as much bad luck as anyone else, and that translates into seeing opportunity.

  Natalie Massenet

  Opportunity, Thinking, Luck

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• Possibly everyone now dead considered his own death as a freak accident, a mistake. Some bad luck caused it. Every enterprising man jack of them, and every sunlit vigorous woman and child, too, who had seemed so alive and pleased, was cold as a meat hook, and new chattering people trampled their bones unregarding, and rubbed their hands together and got to work improving their prospects till their own feet slipped and they went under themselves ... Every place was a tilting edge.

  Annie Dillard

  Children, Mistake, Men

  Annie Dillard (1994). “The Annie Dillard reader”, Harpercollins

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• According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame.

  Hannah Arendt

  Competition, Luck, Honor

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Imperialism: Part Two Of The Origins Of Totalitarianism”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it.

  Jay McInerney

  Luck, Generations, Fleeting

  "The butterfly crusher" by Jay McInerney, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2007.

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• My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

  Sam Shepard

  Dad, Suffering, Luck

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• It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it besides bad luck.

  Naomi Novik

  Luck, Three, Four

  Twitter post from Dec 10, 2014

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• Mundies die awfully easily, don't they?" "Isabelle, you know it's bad luck to talk about death in a sickroom.

  Cassandra Clare

  Luck, Knows, Dies

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view. Sunday dinner isn't sunny. Easter feasts are just bad luck. When you see it from the viewpoint of a chicken or a duck. Oh how I once loved tuna salad Pork and lobsters, lamb chops too Till I stopped and looked at dinner From the dinner's point of view.

  Shel Silverstein

  Easter, Sunday, Dark

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• [The Land] is a film that just happens to be directed and written by a Puerto Rican guy with a black dad. It seemed like a very natural, human interaction between people who all just came from one common cesspool of bad luck.

  Erykah Badu

  Dad, Land, People

  "Sundance 2016 Interview: 'The Land'". Interview with Hunter Harris, www.rogerebert.com. February 2, 2016.

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• Here is part of the tradeoff with diversification. You must be diversified enough to survive bad times or bad luck so that skill and good process can have the chance to pay off over the long term.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Skills, Long, Luck

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• Santa Claus was white and everything bad was black. The little ugly duckling was the black duck, and the black cat was the bad luck. And if I threaten you, I'm going to blackmail you.I said, 'Momma, why don't they call it 'whitemail'? They lie too.'

  Muhammad Ali

  Lying, Cat, Ugly Duckling

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• Our bad luck is that our writing is linear, while we think circularly.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Writing, Thinking, Luck

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• There was a place in New York called Tannen's Magic. It still exists. But back in the day, it was really fantastic. You'd go into the old Wurlitzer Building, take the elevator to the 13th floor, which was labeled 14, because of bad luck, the elevator would open, and you'd be in heaven. It was all of these guys doing magic stuff with props. It's kind of gone now, that experience, the brick-and-mortar magic shop, but you really felt like you'd landed in the most amazing place in the world.

  David Copperfield

  New York, Bricks And Mortar, Guy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I suspect there really was more to my accident than bad luck. I think it was God's way of punishing my nose.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Luck, Noses

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• As soon as you talk about something that hasn't happened yet, it's bad luck.

  Bianca Balti

  Luck, Happened

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Now, in economic crises times, the kind of things you're looking at is it's generally harder to get capital, revenue growth may be more, revenue lines may be unstable or growth may be less easy to predict that you're going to get to. And so what you do is you take a certain conservative approach of when, as all entrepreneurs should do, you plan for both good luck and bad luck, you put extra time on, "Okay, if I have bad luck, what do I do about that?"

  Reid Hoffman

  Good Luck, Extra Time, Entrepreneur

  Source: bigthink.com

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