"There was no such thing as luck.Â Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity.Â More often than not bad luck meant bad plans."

-- Joe Abercrombie

#Stupidity Quotes #Luck Quotes #Selfishness Quotes

“I can't die. It would ruin my image.”
“Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray.(when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac )”
“I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The beauty of Netflix is that you can figure out a good part of the season before you get started. You're never in the hole of, "Oh, we've already released the first four episodes, and now we gotta make the finale, and we've already promised this."”
“It's good to actually cry. Trust me, I've had a lot of practice over the years!”

Source : "Natalia Kills Isn't Just Another Pretty-Faced Pop Star" by Alex Catarinella, www.elle.com. February 24, 2014.
“A Who's Who of pesticides is therefore of concern to us all. If we are going to live so intimately with these chemicals eating and drinking them, taking them into the very marrow of our bones - we had better know something about their nature and their power.”
“You cannot grow and expand your capabilities without running the risk of failure.”
“Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely admire the flatteree, please that person, please other present company, be pleased to stagger rivals, and get something out of it: applause, promotion, a favor, reciprocal praise. Flattery is as social as a banquet.”

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