Luck Quotes - Page 39

• I always get that cautionary warning right before I get off the phone with an interviewer. It's: 'Good luck with the show. I really like it, and if this goes wrong, you'll be hearing from my attorneys.

  Jon Stewart

  Good Luck, Phones, Warning

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• Just because a guy has a shaved head, pierced nipples, and doesn't have sex with women doesn't make him gay. It just makes him down on his luck.

  Drew Carey

  Sex, Gay, Guy

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• Success is made up of courage, brains, and luck. Since the first two are a function of the third, it's pretty much all luck.

  Richard Jeni

  Success, Two, Brain

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• I get hit on by the hottest girls ever. Oh my god, if I was a lesbian, I would be so in luck. But it's just not my thing. I've always batted for the boys' team.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Girl, Team, Boys

  "Kelly Clarkson wasn't 'insulted' by gay rumors... But ponders the possibility" by Christina Garibaldi, www.mtv.com. January 04, 2013.

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• If you have to work at McDonald's, good for you. But on a side note, good luck with the rest of your life.

  Chelsea Handler

  Good Luck, Mcdonalds, Rest Of Your Life

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• I would say luck and preparation. I didn't dominate WWE when I first started, it was a slow process. I wasn't labelled the golden child from day one, it's been a very long road.

  John Cena

  Children, Wwe, Long

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• Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.

  Thomas Piketty

  Democratic Ideals, Inheritance, Merit

  "French economist Thomas Piketty compares US economy to Europe in the Gilded Age". Associated Press Interview, www.oregonlive.com. April 23, 2014.

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• Honestly, it's the luck of the draw. If you are comfortable with the actor that you're opposite of - it just breaks down a lot of those insecurities and you can just say, "Okay, I trust this person, and I respect them and know they respect me," and then you can just go with it. When that doesn't exist, it's a lot harder to let go.

  James Wolk

  Letting Go, Opposites, Insecurity

  Source: collider.com

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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

  Children, Law, Two

  "Interview With The Exorcist's Linda Blair". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 17, 2000.

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• When you talk about bad luck and you talk about the things that create those circumstances and you talk about what it takes to overcome those circumstances and naturally to me includes, you know, a faith, a very strong faith. It should because through good times and through bad times there is one thing that relieves.

  Teddy Pendergrass

  Strong, Overcoming, Good Times

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• If you've got no responsibility and don't have to generate a certain amount of cash each month, and can live on a shoestring, and are ambitious enough, then you might have a chance. You can be dedicated but that is no guarantee that you'll make it. I rely on a hunch, a little luck, and some cunning.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Responsibility, Guarantees That, Ambitious

  Sean Callahan, Elliott Erwitt (1974). “The private experience, Elliott Erwitt”

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• Somebody stole my identity. Good luck using it without the medications.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Good Luck, Identity, Medication

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• Doubt always hovers nearby, but I take photographs the way a musician hums. Looking is like breathing. So when luck turns my way and offers me a good picture, joy is surely nigh.

  Marc Riboud

  Breathing, Joy, Doubt

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• Many stroke survivors look back on their attack as a stroke of luck. Of course, by luck they mean horrible paralysis.

  Dana Gould

  Mean, Survivor, Looks

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• It's difficult to say what's luck and what's not because everything depends on what you learn along the way, and that depends on you as an individual. So I suppose, no, I don't believe in it.

  Chloe Rose Lattanzi

  Believe, Way, Individual

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

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• Take a company like GM. For years, people were warning its execs that the company was too dependent on big SUVs and trucks, that it was falling behind other companies in innovation. A lack of knowledge wasn't the problem. And mothers and fathers everywhere try to warn their kids that maybe a giant tattoo isn't such a good idea. Good luck in that fight, Knowledge.

  Dan Heath

  Tattoo, Mother, Father

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• One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer luck, good or ill.

  Robert Rhodes James

  War, Important, Attention

  Robert Rhodes James (1987). “Anthony Eden”

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• I always found it rather pathetic that as a photographer I would be dependent to such a large extent on sheer luck... So the moment I was offered [digital] tools to bend the shape of the image into my choices, and not those of lady luck, I was hooked.

  Pedro Meyer

  Choices, Would Be, Tools

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• I'm not very good at working for other people. I mostly make pictures because of some whim. With luck, I get a glimpse of something, and then it turns into an adventure, and then into a project.

  Nicholas Nixon

  Adventure, People, Glimpse

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• Don't pray for the rain to stop; pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.

  Wendell Berry

  Rain, Good Luck, Fishing

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.148, Counterpoint Press

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• Penalty shooting is always an uncertain affair because there is a lot of luck involved.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Shooting, Affair, Penalties

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• The main factor in a penalty shootout is luck again. You need to stay calm and focussed but the biggest thing you need is luck.

  Peter Shilton

  Stay Calm, Needs, Penalties

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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

  Islands, Bird, Assistants

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• I am the representative of all the sick people and what they are doing to me is only the worst case right now, but there will be others. I am living on borrowed time anyway. I owe this part of my life to luck and modern medical science. But I can't imagine what the rest of it will be like if they won't let me use medical marijuana.

  Peter McWilliams

  Marijuana, Sick, People

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• I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.

  Antony Beevor

  Believe, Book, May

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