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Michael Palin

Comedian, Actor, Writer

I've been lucky enough to stand on both poles, but the place that seemed the remotest to me was Butugychag, a former gulag in Siberia. It is completely cut off from the rest of the world.

Luck

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George Clooney

Actor, Filmmaker

I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of.

Film - Luck - Open - Willing

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James Patterson

Author

So there you have it, the extent of my charms: brown hair and eyes like unbarfed chocolate. I'm a lucky girl." -Max

Luck

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Julia Roberts

Actress, Producer

I'm so lucky to be crazy happy in my life. And I think it's not so much that I'm happier now than ever; it's that I'm more content. I'm in the harbor of my life.

Luck

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Euripides

Playwright

The lucky person passes for a genius.

Luck - People

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Richard Linklater

Filmmaker

I'm lucky that I get to jump around, do a big-budget comedy and then a smaller film. I don't even make a big distinction between them.

Luck - Making

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Richard Linklater

Filmmaker

The natural phenomenon of the universe is so mind-blowing, but you have to know about it. You have to be curious. You've got to find it on your own. If you're lucky, you do.

Curiosity - Finding - Knowledge - Luck - Ownership - Phenomena

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Stephen King

Writer

It's like many other things in life, Ellie. You keep on the path and all's well. You get off it and the next thing you know you're lost if you're not lucky.

Loss - Luck - Wellness

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Gregory Peck

Actor

I just do things I really enjoy. I enjoy acting. When I'm driving to the studio, I sing in the car. I love my work and my wife and my kids and my friends. And I think, 'You're a lucky man, Gregory Peck, a damn lucky man.'

Drive - Enjoying - Luck - Man

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Confucius

Philosopher, Politician

The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences.

Danger - Heavens - Luck - Man - Meaning

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Lecturer

The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.

Boy - Conditioning - Entrepreneurship - Humor - Luck - Publishing - Swimming

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Walter Cronkite

TV and Radio Broadcaster, News Anchor

I was lucky enough to have one of the first high school classes in the country.

Countries - Luck

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Katharine Hepburn

Actress

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

Luck - Woman

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Jon Stewart

Comedian, Writer, Producer, Director, Activist, Political Commentator, TV Host

That is the American experiment. An ethnic group arriving on America's shores, to be reviled and hazed, living in squalor, or if they are lucky Squalor Heights, working hard to give their children or grandchildren the opportunity to sh*t on the next group landing on our shores.

Experimenting - Luck

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Stan Lee

Comic Book Writer, Editor, Publisher, Producer

I am very lucky because everything that I do is exciting to me. It's always new.

Excitement - Luck

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Truman Capote

Writer, Actor

Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.

Certainty - Children - Difficulty - Luck

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Norman Schwarzkopf

Army General

I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.

Luck - Success

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Stan Lee

Comic Book Writer, Editor, Publisher, Producer

I grew up in New York City during the Depression. My earliest recollections were of my parents talking about what they would do if they didn't have the rent money. Luckily, we were never evicted. But my father was unemployed most of the time.

Growing - Luck - Talk

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Oprah Winfrey

Media Executive, Actress, Talk Show Host, TV Producer

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.

Belief - Luck - Preparedness

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Keith Richards

Musician, Singer, Songwriter

I'd been an expert at taking beatings. Then I had a lucky break where I did a bully in, by total sheer luck. ... One minute I was the mark, and with just one swift move, I put the big man in school down. ... Once he was down, the whole atmosphere in the schoolyard changed. A huge cloud seemed to be lifted from me. ... I'd never been aware the cloud was so large.

Change - Expert - Luck - Man - Marking - Movement - Whole

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Ralph Lauren

Fashion Designer, Business Executive

I don't think I'm the gift of the world - I just do what I do, and I love it and I've been lucky.

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Taylor Swift

Singer, Songwriter

If you're lucky enough to be different, never change.

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Aldous Huxley

Writer, Philosopher

When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when you slip up and return to old, self-defeating habits, recognize the signs that you're out of harmony with intention.

Luck - Motivation - Oneself - Show

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Trevor Noah

Comedian, Writer, Producer, TV Host

I was really lucky in that my mom and dad never got caught in the act, so to speak. So my mom was caught fraternizing with my dad. My mom was caught, you know, in the building that my father lived in. My mom was caught in a white neighborhood past curfew without the right permits. My mother was caught in transition. And that was key because had she been caught in the act, then, as the law says, she could've spent anywhere up to four years in prison.

Father - Key - Luck - Mother - Permission - Speaking - Transitioning

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Richard Branson

Business Magnate, Investor, Author

Giving back has to do with the way I was brought up and the fact that I've traveled widely and seen terrible situations in the world. To sleep well at night, those of us who are in a position to help must address these situations. I'd get far greater satisfaction out of, say, walking into a hospital I'd built in South Africa than I would by sitting on a beach. I'm fortunate enough to be in a position to make a difference, and I don't want to waste that. I suspect I was also lucky to have parents who drove me from a young age.

Help - Luck - Parents - Sleeping

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Gloria Steinem

Journalist, Social Activist

I'm lucky I don't make my living in front of the camera.

Luck - Making

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Richard Branson

Business Magnate, Investor, Author

If you're lucky enough to have a few hundred thousand dollars in the bank account, that should be sufficient for your own personal needs, and anything more than that you've got to put to good use.

Accounting - Luck

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Roald Dahl

Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter

The little pig began to pray But Wolfie blew his house away. He shouted, "Bacon, Pork, and Ham! Oh what a lucky wolf I am!" And though he ate the pig quite fast, He carefully kept the tail till last.

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Ozzy Osbourne

Singer, Songwriter, Actor

I retired once but you've got to have something to retire to and I don't want to do anything. My job is like a well paid hobby, I mean not a hobby but I'm not lining up every morning at the bus queue to go to work. I'm very lucky.

Luck - Meaning - Mornings - Retirement - Wants - Wellness

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Steve Wozniak

Engineer, Inventor, Programmer, Entrepreneur

I hope you're as lucky as I am. The world needs inventors--great ones. You can be one. If you love what you do and are willing to do what it really takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.

Inventing - Luck - Motivation - Wants

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Sylvia Plath

Poet, Writer

To look at her, you might not guess that inside she is laughing and crying, at her own stupidities and luckiness, and at the strange enigmatic ways of the world which she will spend lifetime trying to learn and understand.

Crying - Guess - Laughing - Luck - Stupid - Trial - Woman

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Stephen Hawking

Theoretical Physicist, Cosmologist, Author

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.

Alien - Emptiness - Luck - Remembering

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