"Believing there's no such thing as luck is very unlucky. Like, the worst. Beyond stealing someone's lucky four-leaf clover."

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Source : Caprice Crane (2011). “With a Little Luck: A Novel”, p.4, Bantam

Caprice Crane

#Believe Quotes #Luck Quotes #Four Quotes

“I suddenly realized that the fellow who didn't show up was getting about fifty-times more money than I was getting. So I thought, 'this is silly,' and became an actor. I certainly never thought I'd wind up in motion pictures. That was far beyond anything I'd ever dreamed of.”
“I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward.”
“Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight.”
“When we tell our own story, we teach the values that our choices reveal, not as abstract principals, but as our lived experience. We reveal the kind of person we are to the extent that we let others identify with us.”
“Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.”

Source : "David Crystal: the story of English spelling" by David Crystal, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2012.
“If you can see, hear, feel, and think, you should know that King Dollar rules the United States, and that the workers are robbed and exploited in this country to the heart's content of the masters.If you are not deaf, dumb, and blind, then you know that the American bourgeois democracy and capitalistic civilization are the worst enemies of labor and progress, and that instead of protecting them, you should help to fight to destroy them.”
“I went to school for clothing and textiles and thought this is what I was going to do. Then I started working in costumes and literally said, 'I don't know if I can take the actors.'”
“Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.”

Source : "The Life and Times of William Howard Taft". Book by Henry F. Pringle, 1939.

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