Luck Quotes - Page 18

• Jessica Alba. I have the biggest crush on her, I can't even tell you. I met her in Vancouver when she was filming 'Good Luck Chuck.

  Alexander Ludwig

  Crush, Good Luck, Vancouver

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• I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

  Oren Peli

  Challenges, Kind, My Own

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• You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.

  Ian Rankin

  Hard Work, Ideas, Needs

  "Ian Rankin, author - portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.

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• I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical, write about at least one person to whom the audience is bound to feel inferior, and no fair having human problems solved by dumb luck or heavenly intervention.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, People, Dumb

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• There have been nine Super Bowls in New Orleans, and not all of them have brought the best of luck to NFL Films. We got robbed twice there, got food poisoning, and my hotel room was broken into on the day the Bears played the Patriots in January 1986.

  Steve Sabol

  New Orleans, Nfl, Broken

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• To reach the goals of your life, you need discipline, you need luck and you need something as important as these two: Vacations!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Vacation, Two, Discipline

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• Luck, good or bad, is the invisible play of mind upon affairs, the effect of mental aptitudes and habits which are not in sight, but which work and bring forth their due issues.

  James Vila Blake

  Sight, Play, Issues

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• Bad luck with women is a determined man's road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This goes to show that great men are made great because they once learned how to fight the feeling of rejection.

  Criss Jami

  Fighting, Men, Order

  Criss Jami (2012). “Venus in Arms”, p.38, Criss Jami

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• Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.

  Mike Leigh

  Generosity, Choices, Spirit

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 23, 2008.

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• It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

  Richard Linklater

  Work Out, Happenstance, One Thing

  Interview with Michael Koresky and Jeff Reichert, reverseshot.org. July 2, 2004.

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• I say the one thing about luck is you can't really count on it.

  Ron Livingston

  One Thing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there's a lot of luck involved in that, you're playing a different character.

  Zachary Levi

  Jobs, Couple, Character

  "Zachary Levi CHUCK Series Finale Set Visit Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 24, 2012.

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• My success has been as full of luck as a crapshooter's dream.

  Adolphe Menjou

  Dream, Has Beens

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.

  Slavoj Žižek

  People, Goes On, Succeed

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Don’t depend on luck to solve problems.

  Kim Kyu-jong

  Problem, Solve, Depends

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• Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera.

  Teddy Sears

  New York, Moving, Years

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The simple fact was that if the song wasn't about me, I couldn't see how it could possibly be about anybody else, including the one I knew it was supposed to be about, and good luck to him, too.

  William Saroyan

  Song, Good Luck, Simple

  "Here Comes There Goes You Know Who". Book by William Saroyan, 1961.

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• The honester the man, the worse luck.

  John Ray

  Honesty, Men, He Man

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• I had the luck at 18 to become assistant to Christian Dior, and to succeed him at 21 and to meet with success from my first collection in 1958. That will be 44 years in a few days. Above all it was Christian Dior who was my master and who was the first to reveal the secrets and mysteries of haute couture.

  Christian Dior

  Christian, Years, Secret

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• Luck is always waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, always turns up something. Luck lies in bed and wishes the postman will bring news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six o'clock and with busy pen or ringing hammer, lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines. Labor whistles. Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

  Richard Cobden

  Strong, Lying, Work

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• I've been lucky with my hair. I couldn't deal with it if I'd run out of barnet. Imagine me with a Bobby Charlton comb over.

  Rod Stewart

  Running, Hair, Imagine

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• You can only live on the past for so long, and we kind of stretched our luck on that. We think we're on the way back, but it's just a matter of how quickly things come together. Common sense tells you it's not going to happen overnight because we're trying to catch up.

  Richard Petty

  Thinking, Past, Long

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• I think I wanted to be on Top Gear from a fairly young age because I loved cars and I wanted to do something on telly because I loved TV. I know that I?m ridiculously lucky

  Richard Hammond

  Thinking, Car, Age

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• Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me.

  Graham Taylor

  Thinking, Lucky, Wanted

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• I don't believe in luck. When I am diligent, my luck is generally good. When I am lax, my invariable turns bad.

  Randall Dale Adams

  Believe, Lax, Ability

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