"Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny."
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"You have to take chances - working in film is a mixture of luck, talent, and ability to take the risk. You have to be optimistic. You can't be a pessimistic person."
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"I trust to luck. I am planning to be a millionaire before I die but I don't have a plan as to how that will happen."
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"I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky."
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"Never claim credit for anything. 'Cause you can't righteously do that. There's luck and grace and accident."
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"A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy."
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"Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck."
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"That's bad luck: three on a midget. From "At The Circus"
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"Pickup's washed and you just got paid, with any luck at all you might even get laid."
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"My recipe for success is chance, basically. Just luck. It's a miracle that people still hire me after some of the stuff I've gotten away with. Honestly!"
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"Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising."
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"When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there."
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"Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone."
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"Perseverance brings good luck."
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"Luck never built a business. Prosperity and growth come only to the business that systematically finds and exploits its potential."
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"These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose."
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"[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)"
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"Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?"
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"Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end."
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"The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny."
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