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• As for what you're calling hard luck - well, we made New England out of it. That and codfish.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  England, Calling, Made

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• People break down into two groups. When they experience something lucky, group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them. Group number two sees it as just pure luck. Just a happy turn of chance.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Two, Numbers, People

  "Signs". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• In time of crisis, we summon up our strength. Then, if we are lucky, we are able to call every resource, every forgotten image that can leap to our quickening, every memory that can make us know our power. And this luck is more than it seems to be: it depends on the long preparation of the self to be used.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Memories, Self, Long

  "The Life of Poetry". Book by Muriel Rukeyser. Introduction, 1949.

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• Francois Hollande is the president of the republic, he must be respected. I want to wish him good luck in the midst of these tests.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Good Luck, Wish, President

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• That which you bestow freely and willingly will bring you all the happy luck that a grateful universe knows how to return.

  Sarah Fuller Flower Adams

  Grateful, Return, Know How

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• Everyone gets lucky once in a while, but no one is consistently lucky.

  Doyle Brunson

  Lucky, Consistently

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• I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck.

  Joshua Leonard

  Proud, Witch, Film

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• I thought I'd take style to its limit... My philosophy is a belief in magic, good luck , self-confidence, and pride.

  Grace Jones

  Philosophy, Good Luck, Self Confidence

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• Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.

  Paul Hawken

  Crafts, Break, Enterprise

  Paul Hawken (1988). “Growing a Business”, Simon & Schuster

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• You can start to change your luck today. Begin believing that you can have what you desire and superior things will arrive.

  Steve Backley

  Believe, Desire, Today

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• Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.

  John Stuart Mill

  Photography, Foresight, Complicity

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• Go ahead, push your luck, find out how much love the world can hold.

  Dar Williams

  World, Much Love

  Song: After All Williams, Album: Many Great Companions

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• With luck, a writer capable of producing both Slouching Towards Kalamazoo and The Blood of the Lamb will not remain unappreciated for long.

  Adam Kirsch

  Blood, Long, Lambs

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• I keep like simple thing in my head, so obviously is working. Then it's luck. To be honest, look at set point. I hit one of the worst drop shots I ever hit and he hit a frame It's pure luck, you know, to haven't drop a set. So you need to have it sometime, and I hope I will have more.

  Gael Monfils

  Simple, Needs, Looks

  "An Interview With: Gael Monfils". 2014.usopen.org. September 2, 2014.

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• Whenever you’re down on your luck, and when things aren’t going the way you like, remember that you are the author of your own story. You can write it any way you like, with anyone you choose. And it can be a beautiful story or a sad and tragic one. You get to pick.

  Sarah Jio

  Beautiful, Writing, Stories

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• He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.

  Chanakya

  Men, Religion, May

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• Nothing about my life is lucky. Nothing. A lot of grace, a lot of blessings, a lot of divine order, but I don't believe in luck. For me, luck is preparation meeting the moment of opportunity. There is no luck without you being prepared to handle that moment of opportunity. Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for the moment that is to come.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Believe, Blessing, Opportunity

  FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Jul 26, 2011

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• I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.

  Carl Paladino

  Jobs, New York, Responsibility

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• I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting.

  Mike Thompson

  Thinking, Drawing, People

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• When you look at Darling and the Oscars, it has to be luck. It was a black and white film and it was the last time that there was a black and white Oscar.

  Julie Harris

  Black And White, Looks, Oscars

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• I don't believe much in luck. I believe more in work, in convincing, in stubbornness and in capacity.

  Diego Simeone

  Believe, Stubbornness, Capacity

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• A lot of people think that success is luck and being in the right place at the right time. But I think if you’re willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create an awful lot of your own luck.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Hard Work, Thinking, People

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• Of course I don't believe in it [pointing to horseshoe on his office wall]. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.

  Niels Bohr

  Faith, Wall, Believe

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• A lot of people think there's a lot of luck in fishing, and there really isn't.

  Kevin VanDam

  Thinking, Fishing, People

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• I'm not a political thinker, but I've just always thought of myself as a Labour supporter. I was a great fan of Tony Blair. He sent me a letter before I swam the Channel to wish me luck.

  David Walliams

  Political, Wish, Fans

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

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