"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."
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"Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one."
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"A friend of mine said to me a year ago, "You're so lucky, Nancy, because Ronnie left you the library," She said, "You have that to work on, and to go to, and, in a sense, to be with him." I had never thought of it like that, but it's true. I go to the library or work for the library all the time, because it's Ronnie. I'm working for Ronnie."
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"You can journey to the ends of the earth in search of success, but if you’re lucky, you will discover happiness in your own backyard."
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"I know nothing more enjoyable than that happy-go-lucky wandering life, in which you are perfectly free; without shackles of any kind, without care, without preoccupation, without thought even of to-morrow. You go in any direction you please, without any guide save your fancy."
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"I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them."
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"Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you."
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"Hmm, limelight... No, I'm not Sienna Miller or Angelina Jolie. I'm very lucky and happy, but I still find it very difficult to get good scripts and good roles. It's really a jungle out there."
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"I feel very lucky to be successful in what i love doing everyday."
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"Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me."
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"One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days."
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"If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away."
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"True fans stick behind bands through thick and thin and we've been lucky enough to have some amazing fans."
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"At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve."
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"When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky."
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"I went to the school and put it to William, particularly, that if you find someone you love in life, you must hang onto it, and look after it, and if you were lucky enough to find someone who loved you, then you must protect it."
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"I’m so lucky to be in the position to give. It’s really a gift to give."
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"When I was in employment as a regular line pilot, I used to take unpaid leave to go on tour with Iron Maiden. I got lucky - they let me off"
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"My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest."
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"Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves."
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